Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 12, Issue 9, 092402(2014)

Graded-index ridge surface plasmon polaritons waveguide

Chunwei Ye, Yumin Liu, Jie Wang, Hongbo Lv, and Zhongyuan Yu
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  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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    We propose and analyze a long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waveguide based on graded-index ridge over server millimeter distances. Then the influence of the dielectric thickness and the ridge refractive index on propagation length and mode width is discussed and simulated with the finite ele-ment method. The result shows that the SPP can propagate as long as 3.42 mm, as well as the mode width keeping as 1.64 mm, a better one compared with the fixed refractive index. Considering its nanoscale dimen-sion and outstanding performance, the structure is easily realized when connected with electrodes.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optics at Surfaces

    Received: Mar. 24, 2014

    Accepted: Jun. 11, 2014

    Published Online: Sep. 1, 2014

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    DOI:10.3788/col201412.092402

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