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Extending the Propagation Distance of a Silver Nanowire Plasmonic Waveguide with a Dielectric Multilayer Substrate
Chemical synthesized silver nanowires have been proved to be the efficient
architecture for Plasmonic waveguides, but the high propagation loss prevents
their widely applications. Here, we demonstrate that the propagation distance
of the plasmons along the Ag NW can be extended if the Ag NW was placed on a
dielectric multilayer substrate containing a photonic band gap, but not placed
on a commonly used glass substrate. The propagation distance at 630 nm
wavelength can reach 16 um even that the Ag NW is as thin as 90 nm in diameter.
Experimental and simulation results further show that the polarization of this
propagating plasmon mode was nearly parallel to the surface of the dielectric
multilayer, so it was excited by a transverse-electric polarized Bloch surface
wave propagating along a polymer nanowire with diameter at only about 170 nm on
the same dielectric multilayer. Numerical simulations were also carried out and
consistent with the experiment results. Our work provides a platform to extend
the propagation distance of plasmonic waveguide and also for the integration
between photonic and plasmonic waveguides on the nanometre scale.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Diffraction-Free Bloch Surface Waves
In this letter, we demonstrate a novel diffraction-free Bloch surface wave
(DF-BSW) sustained on all-dielectric multilayers that does not diffract after
being passed through three obstacles or across a single mode fiber. It can
propagate in a straight line for distances longer than 110 {\mu}m at a
wavelength of 633 nm and could be applied as an in-plane optical virtual probe,
both in air and in an aqueous environment. The ability to be used in water, its
long diffraction-free distance, and its tolerance to multiple obstacles make
this DF-BSW ideal for certain applications in areas such as the biological
sciences, where many measurements are made on glass surfaces or for which an
aqueous environment is required, and for high-speed interconnections between
chips, where low loss is necessary. Specifically, the DF-BSW on the dielectric
multilayer can be used to develop novel flow cytometry that is based on the
surface wave, but not the free space beam, to detect the surface-bound targets
Single planar photonic chip with tailored angular transmission for multiple-order analog spatial differentiator
The authors present a planar photonic chip, which operate as a multiple-order analog spatial differentiator. It provides a route for designing fast, power-efficient, compact and low-cost devices used in edge detection and optical image processing, thus expanding the functions of standard microscopes
Radiative decay engineering 8: Coupled emission microscopy for lens-free high-throughput fluorescence detection
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A planar metallic collimator based on controlling surface plasmons's phase
Abstract We present numerical study of the optical transmission of a metal film perforated by slits array with different spacing. A planar metallic collimator with phase retardation controlled by the slits space is designed. The analysis results show this structure with appropriate space between the slits can collimate or deflect the transmitted beam, which is attributed to phase retardation of surface plasmons propagating from one slit to the other. The numerical analysis results demonstrate a useful deflecting or collimating function of a planar metallic film in the applied fields of optical storage, optical coupler, nano-optics