Excitation of plasmonic gap waveguides by nanoantennas.
We model and optimize the excitation of a plasmonic gap waveguide by a dipole antenna. The coupling efficiency strongly depends on antenna and waveguide properties where impedance matching plays a critical role. The optimization of antenna lengths and gap widths shows that concepts of circuit networks can likewise be applied to optical frequencies. Using classical optimization schemes known from electrical engineering we manage to increase the coupling efficiency by a factor of 129 compared with the situation without antennas.
Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Guenther-Scharowsky-Strasse, 1/Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen, Germany. jwen@optik.uni-erlangen.de
Jing
J
Wen
Sergei
S
Romanov
Ulf
U
Peschel
D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*