Characterization of the surface plasmon polariton band gap in an Ag/SiO_2/Ag T-shaped periodical structure

Bend loss in surface plasmon polariton band-gap structures

Waveguiding in surface plasmon polariton band gap structures.

Using near-field optical microscopy, we investigate propagation and scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP's) excited in the wavelength range of 780-820 nm at nanostructured gold-film surfaces with areas of 200-nm-wide scatterers arranged in a 400-nm-period triangular lattice containing line defects. We observe the SPP reflection by such an area and SPP guiding along line defects at 782 ...

Plasmonic photonic crystal with a complete band gap for surface plasmon polariton waves

A dielectric plasmonic photonic crystal for manipulating surface plasmon polariton SPP fields has been designed, fabricated, and tested. The band structure of SPP fields inside the plasmonic photonic crystal has been calculated using the plane wave expansion method and validated by full wave numerical simulations. The fabricated device was characterized using our far-field SPP imaging technique...

Direct observation of surface plasmon-polariton dispersion.

We describe a method to observe the directional emission of electromagnetic radiation produced by the radiative decay of surface plasmonpolaritons (SPPs) that allows the dispersion of the modes in k-space to be directly visualized. The method presented here opens up the possibility of characterizing the effect of a wide range of surface morphologies on SPP dispersion. As an example we show the ...

Removal of surface plasmon polariton eigenmodes degeneracy

The effect of the tilt angle of metal film on the transmissivity of subwavelength holes in optically thick metal film is investigated. The transmission efficiency is found can be highly dependent on the tilt angle. It is also found that when the input photons are polarized not along the eigenmode directions of surface plasmon polariton, a birefringent phenomenon is observed when the array with ...