title: Photonic bandgap plasmonic waveguides.
abstract: A type of a plasmonic waveguide has been proposed featuring an "open" design that is easy to manufacture, simple to excite and offers convenient access to a plasmonic mode. Optical properties of photonic bandgap (PBG) plasmonic waveguides are investigated experimentally by leakage radiation microscopy and numerically using the finite element method confirming photonic bandgap guidance in a broad spectral range. Propagation and localization characteristics of a PBG plasmonic waveguide have been discussed as a function of the wavelength of operation, waveguide core size, and the number of ridges in the periodic reflector for fundamental and higher order plasmonic modes of the waveguide.
authors: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Génie Physique, Québec, Canada.
authors: Andrey
authors: A
authors: Markov
authors: Carsten
authors: C
authors: Reinhardt
authors: Bora
authors: B
authors: Ung
authors: Andrey B
authors: AB
authors: Evlyukhin
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Cheng
authors: Boris N
authors: BN
authors: Chichkov
authors: Maksim
authors: M
authors: Skorobogatiy