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Efficient excitation of dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguide modes at telecommunication wavelengths

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The excitation of surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waveguide modes in subwavelength dielectric ridges deposited on a thin gold film has been characterized and optimized at telecommunication wavelengths. The experimental data on the electromagnetic mode structure obtained using scanning near-field optical microscopy have been directly compared to full vectorial three-dimensional finite element method simulations. Two excitation geometries have been investigated where SPPs are excited outside or inside the dielectric tapered region adjoint to the waveguide. The dependence of the efficiency of the SPP guided mode excitation on the taper opening angle has been measured and modeled. Single-mode guiding and strong lateral mode confinement of dielectric-loaded SPP waveguide modes have been characterized with the near-field measurements and compared to the effective-index method model.

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hal-00472380 , version 1 (11-04-2010)

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Tobias Holmgaard, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, Laurent Markey, Alain Dereux, Alexey V. Krasavin, et al.. Efficient excitation of dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguide modes at telecommunication wavelengths. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2008, 78, pp.165431. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.78.165431⟩. ⟨hal-00472380⟩
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