Form birefringence metal and its plasmonic anisotropy

被引:25
作者
Feng, Liang [1 ]
Liu, Zhaowei [1 ]
Lomakin, Vitaliy [1 ]
Fainman, Yeshaiahu [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
birefringence; dielectric polarisation; metamaterials; plasmonics; surface plasmons; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1063/1.3299002
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We constructed a uniaxial "form birefringence" metal that exhibits different dielectric polarizabilities along different optical axes as well as its supported optical anisotropy of surface plasmon polariton waves. The generated plasmonic index ellipsoid that exists in reciprocal space has been directly mapped and characterized in our experiment. The discovery of this anisotropic plasmonic metamaterial further completes analogy between artificial plasmonic metamaterials and conventional optical crystals, thereby providing opportunities to miniaturize myriad existing optical devices on-a-chip with plasmonics into nanometers scale.
引用
收藏
页数:3
相关论文
共 21 条
[1]  
[Anonymous], 2000, Principles of optics: electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light
[2]   Channel plasmon subwavelength waveguide components including interferometers and ring resonators [J].
Bozhevolnyi, SI ;
Volkov, VS ;
Devaux, E ;
Laluet, JY ;
Ebbesen, TW .
NATURE, 2006, 440 (7083) :508-511
[3]   ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRICS HAVING REFRACTIVE INDICES LESS THAN UNITY [J].
BROWN, J .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS-LONDON, 1953, 100 (05) :51-62
[4]  
Cao LY, 2009, NAT MATER, V8, P643, DOI [10.1038/nmat2477, 10.1038/NMAT2477]
[5]  
Edwards D.F., 1985, Handbook of optical constants of solids
[6]   Scattering-free plasmonic optics with anisotropic metamaterials [J].
Elser, Justin ;
Podolskiy, Viktor A. .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2008, 100 (06)
[7]   Nanowire metamaterials with extreme optical anisotropy [J].
Elser, Justin ;
Wangberg, Robyn ;
Podolskiy, Viktor A. ;
Narimanov, Evgenii E. .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2006, 89 (26)
[8]   METAL-LENS ANTENNAS [J].
KOCK, WE .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS, 1946, 34 (11) :828-836
[9]   Inhomogenous dielectric metamaterials with space-variant polarizability [J].
Levy, Uriel ;
Abashin, Maxim ;
Ikeda, Kazuhiro ;
Krishnamoorthy, Ashok ;
Cunningham, John ;
Fainman, Yeshaiahu .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2007, 98 (24)
[10]   Ultrafast active plasmonics [J].
MacDonald, Kevin F. ;
Samson, Zsolt L. ;
Stockman, Mark I. ;
Zheludev, Nikolay I. .
NATURE PHOTONICS, 2009, 3 (01) :55-58