Plasmon-plasmon interaction: controlling light at nanoscale.
This paper investigates the effect of the locally induced bulk plasmon resonance on light guiding of a plasma-like medium. It is demonstrated that, by inducing or suppressing the bulk plasmon resonance, one can manipulate the light propagation. This concept is then employed for a hybrid dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide with the aim to efficiently control the surface plasmon polaritons with a highly doped silicon as an active material. The proposed approach is shown to have a high potential for nanoscale light manipulation and development of a fully CMOS-compatible electro-optical plasmonic modulator.
Electronics and Photonics Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis, Singapore. akimov@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
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