Ultra-short vertical plasmonic couplers were devised for the efficient excitation of long-range surface-polariton-plasmon mode, in the visible regime, between a polymeric waveguide and a plasmonic waveguide in two different configurations. Numerical simulations suggest the realization of coupling efficiencies as high as 90% and insertion losses as low as -5.5 dB, with a coupling length of few micrometers. Thus the proposed design clearly proves that is possible to optimize contemporaneously the coupling efficiency and the coupling length. Therefore the compactness and the lower fabrication requirements make the proposed device very promising in a variety of applications

High-Efficient Ultra-Short Vertical Long-Range Plasmonic Coupler / Magno, G.; Grande, Marco; Petruzzelli, Vincenzo; D'Orazio, Antonella. - In: JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS. - ISSN 1934-2608. - 6:1(2012). [10.1117/1.JNP.6.061609]

High-Efficient Ultra-Short Vertical Long-Range Plasmonic Coupler

Magno, G.;GRANDE, Marco;PETRUZZELLI, Vincenzo;D'ORAZIO, Antonella
2012-01-01

Abstract

Ultra-short vertical plasmonic couplers were devised for the efficient excitation of long-range surface-polariton-plasmon mode, in the visible regime, between a polymeric waveguide and a plasmonic waveguide in two different configurations. Numerical simulations suggest the realization of coupling efficiencies as high as 90% and insertion losses as low as -5.5 dB, with a coupling length of few micrometers. Thus the proposed design clearly proves that is possible to optimize contemporaneously the coupling efficiency and the coupling length. Therefore the compactness and the lower fabrication requirements make the proposed device very promising in a variety of applications
2012
High-Efficient Ultra-Short Vertical Long-Range Plasmonic Coupler / Magno, G.; Grande, Marco; Petruzzelli, Vincenzo; D'Orazio, Antonella. - In: JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS. - ISSN 1934-2608. - 6:1(2012). [10.1117/1.JNP.6.061609]
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