title: Excitation of a nanowire "molecule" in gold-filled photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: A pair of gold nanowires, incorporated into a photonic crystal fiber, acts as a plasmonic "molecule." Hybridized modes are excited at specific wavelengths by launching light into the glass core. The formation of bonding and antibonding solutions results in a modal splitting of more than 100 nm, even though the spatial separation between the wires is larger than 3 μm. The study provides insight into multiwire plasmonic devices with applications as polarizers or filters in near-field optics, nonlinear plasmonics, optical sensing, and telecommunications.
authors: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Guenther-Scharowsky-Strasse 1, Erlangen, Germany. howard.lee@mpl.mpg.de
authors: H W
authors: HW
authors: Lee
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Schmidt
authors: P St J
authors: PS
authors: Russell