Integrated plasmon and dielectric waveguides
Abstract
We have designed, fabricated and characterized surface plasmon waveguides for near infrared light in the telecommunications spectrum. These waveguides exhibit losses of -1.2dB/μm and can guide light around 0.5 μm bends. Light can also be efficiently coupled between more conventional silicon waveguides and these plasmon waveguides with compact couplers, and we demonstrate that surface plasmon optical devices can be constructed by using planar circuit fabrication techniques. The large optical field enhancements of metallic surface plasmon devices are expected to lead to a new class of plasmonic optical devices, which will take advantage of the large field enhancements at the surfaces of the plasmon waveguides for nonlinear or sensing functionality, while utilizing the low losses available in silicon waveguides to move light longer distances on chip.
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©2004 Optical Society of America Received 8 September 2004; revised 22 October 2004; accepted 22 October 2004. This work was performed in part at the Cornell Nano-Scale Science & Technology Facility (a member of the National Nanofabrication Users Network) which is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECS-9731293, its users, Cornell University and Industrial Affiliates. The authors wish to acknowledge generous support from the AFOSR under contract F49620-02-1-0324 entitled "Plasmonic Materials."Files
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