Wireless Communication with Nanoplasmonic Data Carriers : 2 Macroscale Propagation of Nanophotonic Plasmon Polaritons 3 Probed by Near - Field

2 Macroscale Propagation of Nanophotonic Plasmon Polaritons 3 Probed by Near-Field Nanoimaging 4 Moshik Cohen,*,†,§ Yossi Abulafia, Dmitry Lev, Aaron Lewis, Reuven Shavit,‡ and Zeev Zalevsky†,§ 5 †Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel 6 ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel 7 Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel 8 Department of Applied Physics, Selim and Rachel Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University, 9 Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel