Title :
Excitation of gap plasmonic waveguides by nano antennas
Author :
Wen, Jing ; Banzer, Peter ; Ploss, Daniel ; Kriesch, Arian ; Schmauss, Bernhard ; Peschel, Ulf
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Opt., Inf. & Photonics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the excitation of plasmonic gap waveguides by nano antennas. The excitation is shown to be both spatially and spectrally dependent which can potentially be used for the selective excitation of plasmonic nanostructures.
Keywords :
Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Focusing; Optical beams; Optical polarization; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Resonance light scattering; Waveguide discontinuities;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
