A three-dimensional negative index medium and a miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator (Conference Presentation)

Ta-Jen Yen; Chu-En Lin; Chih-Jen Yu; Tsung-Yu Huang; Ting-Tso Yeh; Cheng-Wei Chang

doi:10.1117/12.2277112

29 September 2017 A three-dimensional negative index medium and a miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator (Conference Presentation)

Ta-Jen Yen, Chu-En Lin, Chih-Jen Yu, Tsung-Yu Huang, Ting-Tso Yeh, Cheng-Wei Chang

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Proceedings Volume 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV; 103461X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277112
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this talk, I introduce two plasmonic devices. Firstly, we design and construct a three-dimensional (3D) negative index medium (NIM) composed of gold hemispherical shells to supplant an integration of a split-ring resonator and a discrete plasmonic wire for both negative permeability and permittivity at THz gap. With the proposed highly symmetric gold hemispherical shells, the negative index is preserved at multiple incident angles ranging from 0° to 85° for both TE and TM waves, which is further evidenced by negative phase flows in animated field distributions and outweighs conventional fishnet structures with operating frequency shifts when varying incident angles. Finally, the fabrication of the gold hemispherical shells is facilitated via standard UV lithographic and isotropic wet etching processes and characterized by -FTIR. The measurement results agree the simulated ones very well. Secondly, we present a miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator (SPPAM) by directing and interfering surface plasmon polaritons on a nanofabricated chip. Our results show that this SPPAM enables two kinds of modulations. The first kind of modulation is controlled by encoding angular-frequency difference from a Zeeman laser, with a beat frequency of 1.66 MHz; the second of modulation is validated by periodically varying the polarization states from a polarization generator, with rotation frequencies of 0.5-10k Hz. In addition, the normalized extinction ratio of our plasmonic structure reaches 100. Such miniaturized beat-frequency and polarization-controlled amplitude modulators open an avenue for the exploration of ultrasensitive nanosensors, nanocircuits, and other integrated nanophotonic devices.

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Ta-Jen Yen, Chu-En Lin, Chih-Jen Yu, Tsung-Yu Huang, Ting-Tso Yeh, and Cheng-Wei Chang "A three-dimensional negative index medium and a miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV, 103461X (29 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277112

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Plasmonics

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Surface plasmon polaritons

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