Active control of surface plasmon polaritons with phase change materials

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/accd5a

Abstract Active control of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is highly desired for nanophotonics. Here we employ a phase change material Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ (GST) to actively manipulate the propagating direction of SPPs at the telecom wavelength. By utilizing the phase transition-induced refractive index change of GST, coupled with interference effects, a nanoantenna pair containing GST is designed to realize switchable one-way launching of SPPs. Devices based on the nanoantenna pairs are proposed to manipulate SPPs, including the direction tuning of SPP beams, switchable SPP focusing, and switchable cosine-Gauss SPP beam generating. Our design can be employed in compact optical circuits and photonics integration.

Keywords: surface plasmon polaritons phase change materials direction control non-diffractive

Received: 24 March 2023
Revised: 11 April 2023
Accepted manuscript online: 17 April 2023

PACS:	42.25.Hz	(Interference)
	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	73.40.Rw	(Metal-insulator-metal structures)
	78.20.N-

Corresponding Authors: Hong Xiang, De-Zhuan Han
E-mail: xhong@cqu.edu.cn;dzhan@cqu.edu.cn

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Yuan-Zhen Qi(漆元臻), Qiao Jiang(蒋瞧), Hong Xiang(向红), and De-Zhuan Han(韩德专) Active control of surface plasmon polaritons with phase change materials 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 104202

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