Multimode Plasmon Excitation and In Situ Analysis in Top-Down Fabricated Nanocircuits

P Geisler, G Razinskas, E Krauss, XF Wu, C Rewitz… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
P Geisler, G Razinskas, E Krauss, XF Wu, C Rewitz, P Tuchscherer, S Goetz, CB Huang…
Physical review letters, 2013APS
We experimentally demonstrate synthesis and in situ analysis of multimode plasmonic
excitations in two-wire transmission lines supporting a symmetric and an antisymmetric
eigenmode. To this end we irradiate an incoupling antenna with a diffraction-limited
excitation spot exploiting a polarization-and position-dependent excitation efficiency. Modal
analysis is performed by recording the far-field emission of two mode-specific spatially
separated emission spots at the far end of the transmission line. To illustrate the power of the …
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate synthesis and in situ analysis of multimode plasmonic excitations in two-wire transmission lines supporting a symmetric and an antisymmetric eigenmode. To this end we irradiate an incoupling antenna with a diffraction-limited excitation spot exploiting a polarization-and position-dependent excitation efficiency. Modal analysis is performed by recording the far-field emission of two mode-specific spatially separated emission spots at the far end of the transmission line. To illustrate the power of the approach we selectively determine the group velocities of symmetric and antisymmetric contributions of a multimode ultrafast plasmon pulse.
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