title: Guiding properties of asymmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguides on dielectric substrates.
abstract: We proposed an asymmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguide which is placed on a substrate for practical applications by introducing an asymmetry into a symmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguide. The guiding properties of the asymmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguide are investigated using finite element method. The results show that, with proper waveguide sizes, the proposed waveguide can eliminate the influence of the substrate on its guiding properties and restore its broken symmetric mode. We obtained the maximum propagation length of 2.49 × 103 μm. It is approximately equal to that of the symmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguide embedded in air cladding with comparable nanoscale confinement.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts Telecommunications, P, O, Box 66, Beijing 100876, China. xzhang@bupt.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren