• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 12, Issue 9, 092402 (2014)
Chunwei Ye, Yumin Liu, Jie Wang, Hongbo Lv, and Zhongyuan Yu
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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    Chunwei Ye, Yumin Liu, Jie Wang, Hongbo Lv, Zhongyuan Yu. Graded-index ridge surface plasmon polaritons waveguide[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(9): 092402 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose and analyze a long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waveguide based on graded-index ridge over server millimeter distances. Then the influence of the dielectric thickness and the ridge refractive index on propagation length and mode width is discussed and simulated with the finite ele-ment method. The result shows that the SPP can propagate as long as 3.42 mm, as well as the mode width keeping as 1.64 mm, a better one compared with the fixed refractive index. Considering its nanoscale dimen-sion and outstanding performance, the structure is easily realized when connected with electrodes.
    Chunwei Ye, Yumin Liu, Jie Wang, Hongbo Lv, Zhongyuan Yu. Graded-index ridge surface plasmon polaritons waveguide[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(9): 092402
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