Functional plasmonic nanocircuits with low insertion and propagation losses

A Kriesch, SP Burgos, D Ploss, H Pfeifer, HA Atwater… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A Kriesch, SP Burgos, D Ploss, H Pfeifer, HA Atwater, U Peschel
Nano letters, 2013ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic nanocircuits operating as subdiffraction
directional couplers optically excited with high efficiency from free-space using optical Yagi-
Uda style antennas at λ0= 1550 nm. The optical Yagi-Uda style antennas are designed to
feed channel plasmon waveguides with high efficiency (45% in coupling, 60% total
emission), narrow angular directivity (< 40°), and low insertion loss. SPP channel
waveguides exhibit propagation lengths as large as 34 μm with adiabatically tuned …
We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic nanocircuits operating as subdiffraction directional couplers optically excited with high efficiency from free-space using optical Yagi-Uda style antennas at λ0 = 1550 nm. The optical Yagi-Uda style antennas are designed to feed channel plasmon waveguides with high efficiency (45% in coupling, 60% total emission), narrow angular directivity (<40°), and low insertion loss. SPP channel waveguides exhibit propagation lengths as large as 34 μm with adiabatically tuned confinement and are integrated with ultracompact (5 × 10 μm2), highly dispersive directional couplers, which enable 30 dB discrimination over Δλ = 200 nm with only 0.3 dB device loss.
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