title: Low-loss hybrid plasmonic waveguide for compact and high-efficient photonic integration.
abstract: A new hybrid plasmonic waveguide is introduced and characterized in the paper. By coupling the photonic modes of a Si waveguide with the higher-order plasmonic modes of a silver nanowire, we demonstrate that the resultant hybrid modes possess small mode areas and long propagation distances, as well as high excitation efficiency (~90%) from the conventional dielectric modes. Such hybrid waveguides may find applications in the high-dense photonic integrations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The State Key Laboratory on Fiber Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kou
authors.forename: Fangwei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Xianfeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen