中国物理B ›› 2014, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (4): 46103-046103.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/4/046103

• CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Hybrid plasmon waveguides with metamaterial substrate and dielectric substrate:A contrastive study

宫慧, 刘玉敏, 俞重远, 吴秀, 尹昊智   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-06-16 修回日期:2013-08-23 出版日期:2014-04-15 发布日期:2014-04-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60908028, 60971068, 10979065, and 61275201) and the Program for the New Century Excellent Talents in University, China (Grant No. NCET-10-0261).

Hybrid plasmon waveguides with metamaterial substrate and dielectric substrate:A contrastive study

Gong Hui (宫慧), Liu Yu-Min (刘玉敏), Yu Zhong-Yuan (俞重远), Wu Xiu (吴秀), Yin Hao-Zhi (尹昊智)   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2013-06-16 Revised:2013-08-23 Online:2014-04-15 Published:2014-04-15
  • Contact: Liu Yu-Min E-mail:microliuyumin@hotmail.com
  • About author:61.46.Km; 78.67.Pt
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60908028, 60971068, 10979065, and 61275201) and the Program for the New Century Excellent Talents in University, China (Grant No. NCET-10-0261).

摘要: Hybrid plasmon waveguides, respectively, with metamaterial substrate and dielectric substrate are investigated and analyzed contrastively with a numerical finite element method. Basic properties, including propagation length Lp, effective mode area Aeff, and energy distribution, are obtained and compared with waveguide geometric parameters at 1.55 μ. For the waveguide with metamaterial substrate, propagation length Lp increases to several tens of microns and effective mode area Aeff is reduced by more than 3 times. Moreover, the near field region is expanded, leading to potential applications in nanophotonics. Therefore, it could be very helpful for improving the integration density in optical chips and developing functional components on a nanometer scale for all optical integrated circuits.

关键词: hybrid plasmon waveguide, metamaterial, propagation length, effective mode area

Abstract: Hybrid plasmon waveguides, respectively, with metamaterial substrate and dielectric substrate are investigated and analyzed contrastively with a numerical finite element method. Basic properties, including propagation length Lp, effective mode area Aeff, and energy distribution, are obtained and compared with waveguide geometric parameters at 1.55 μ. For the waveguide with metamaterial substrate, propagation length Lp increases to several tens of microns and effective mode area Aeff is reduced by more than 3 times. Moreover, the near field region is expanded, leading to potential applications in nanophotonics. Therefore, it could be very helpful for improving the integration density in optical chips and developing functional components on a nanometer scale for all optical integrated circuits.

Key words: hybrid plasmon waveguide, metamaterial, propagation length, effective mode area

中图分类号:  (Structure of nanowires and nanorods (long, free or loosely attached, quantum wires and quantum rods, but not gate-isolated embedded quantum wires))

  • 61.46.Km
78.67.Pt (Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)