Transverse localization of Tamm plasmon in metal-DBR structure with disordered layer

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/8/087301

Abstract

Transverse localization of the optical Tamm plasmon (OTP) is studied in a metal-distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) structure with a one-dimensional disordered layer embedded at the interface between the metal and the DBR. The embedded disordered layer induces multiple scattering and interference of light, forming the light localization in the transverse direction. This together with the formation of Tamm plasmonic modes at the metal-DBR interface (i.e., the confinement of light in the longitudinal direction), gives birth to the so called transverse-localized Tamm plasmon. It is shown that for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarized light injection, the excited transverse-localized Tamm plasmon broadens and splits the dispersion curve due to spatial incoherence in the transverse direction, thus proving the stronger light confinement especially in the TE polarized injection. By adding the gain medium, specific random lasing modes are observed. The proposed study could be an efficient way of trapping and locally enhancing light on a subwavelength scale, which is useful in applications of random lasers, optical sensing, and imaging.

Keywords: optical Tamm plasmon light localization random laser distributed Bragg reflector

Received: 08 April 2018
Revised: 13 May 2018
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PACS:	73.20.-r	(Electron states at surfaces and interfaces)
	71.36.+c	(Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions))
	78.67.-n	(Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures)
	78.67.Pt	(Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61575040 and 61635005) and the 111 Project, China (Grant No. B14039).

Corresponding Authors: Wei-Li Zhang
E-mail: wl_zhang@aliyun.com

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Deng-Ju He(何登举), Wei-Li Zhang(张伟利), Rui Ma(马瑞), Shan-Shan Wang(王珊珊), Xiao-Min Wu(吴小敏), Yun-Jiang Rao(饶云江) Transverse localization of Tamm plasmon in metal-DBR structure with disordered layer 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 087301

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