Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-42gr6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T21:54:51.741Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Effective Excitation of Superfocusing Surface Plasmons using Phase Controlled Waveguide Modes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Affiliation:
kazu-yama@nict.go.jp, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Kazuyoshi Kurihara
Affiliation:
k-kuri@nict.go.jp, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Junichi Takahara
Affiliation:
takahara@ee.es.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Akira Otomo
Affiliation:
akira_o@nict.go.jp, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Get access

Abstract

We propose more practical method to realize the superfocusing modes based on waveguide structures, and present a numerical analysis these structures using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. For metallic wedged structure coupled to dielectric waveguides, we investigate a method of controlling superfocusing by changing the phase of waveguide modes.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Nerkararyan, Kh. V., Phys. Lett. A, 237, 103105 (1997).Google Scholar
2 Babadjanyan, A. J., Margaryan, N. L., and Kh. Narkararyan, V., J. Appl. Phys,. 87, 37853788 (2000).Google Scholar
3 Stockman, M. I., Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 137404–1 (2004).Google Scholar
4 Kurihara, K., Otomo, A., Syouji, A., Takahara, J., Suzuki, K., and Yokoyama, S., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor,. 40, 1247912503 (2007).Google Scholar
5 Kurihara, K., Yamamoto, K., Takahara, J., and Otomo, A., J. Phys. A:Math. Theor., 41, 295401(48pp) (2008).Google Scholar
6 Taflove, A. and Hagness, S. C., Computational Electrodynamics. The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, 2nd ed., Artech House, Boston, MA (2000).Google Scholar
7 Economou, E. N., Phys. Rev, 182, 539554 (1969).Google Scholar
8 Takahara, J. and Kusunoki, F., IEICE Tran. Electron., E90-C, 8794 (2007).Google Scholar