Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics (한국광학회지)

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Surface Plasmon Modes Confined in the Gap Between Metal Nanowire and Dielectric Slab

유전체 판과 금속 나노선 사이에 구속된 표면 플라즈몬 모드

  • Received : 2011.10.17
  • Accepted : 2011.11.15
  • Published : 2011.12.25
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Abstract

We propose a metal-dielectric hybrid waveguide structure consisting of a single metal nanowire placed on a flat dielectric slab. Mode size and propagation loss of the surface-plasmons confined in the metal-dielectric gap are compared with those of the complementary structure with a dielectric nanowire on a metal surface. In the case of the nanowire's diameter much smaller than the wavelength the two structures reveal quite different characteristics; the dielectric nanowire-on-metal has longer propagation distance, but only the metal nanowire-on-dielectric exhibits a mode size two fold smaller than the diffraction limit. The proposed hybrid structure may therefore be more suitable for realization of nanocavity lasers.

회절한계 이하의 모드 크기를 가지는 금속-유전체 혼합 광도파로 구조를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 혼합 광도파로는 금속 나노선이 유전체 평면 위에 놓인 구조로서, 금속선과 유전체 사이에 구속된 파장보다 작은 크기의 표면-플라즈몬 모드의 특성을 기존의 유전체 나노선을 이용하는 구조와 비교 분석하였다. 두 도파로의 모드 크기와 전파 거리는 나노선의 직경이 큰 경우에는 비슷한 경향을 보이나, 직경이 작아짐에 따라 서로 상이한 값을 가진다. 회절 한계보다 100배 이상 작은 모드를 갖는 파장길이의 나노 공진기 구현을 위해서는 제안된 금속 나노선-유전체 광 도파로 구조가 적합함을 보였다.

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