title: Design and analysis of metal/multi-insulator/metal waveguide plasmonic Bragg grating.
abstract: A metal/multi-insulator/metal waveguide plasmonic Bragg grating with a large dynamic range of index modulation is investigated analytically and numerically. Theoretical formalism of the dispersion relation for the present and general one-dimensional gratings is developed for TMwaves in the vicinity of each stop band.Wide-band and narrow-band designs with their respective FWHM bandwidths of 173.4 nm and < 3.4 nm in the 1550 nm band using a grating length of <16.0 microm are numerically demonstrated. Time-average power vortexes near the silica-silicon interfaces are revealed in the stop band and are attributed to the contra-flow interaction and simultaneous satisfactions of the Bragg condition for the incident and backward-diffracted waves. An enhanced forward-propagating power is thus shown to occur over certain sections within one period due to the power coupling from the backward-diffracted waves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Optics and Photonics National Central University, Jhongli 32001, Taiwan, China. yjchang@ncu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Yin-Jung
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Chang