Fabrication and optical characterization of long-range surface-plasmon-polariton waveguides in the NIR

Autor: Weber, Markus, Trapp, Johannes, Boehm, Florian, Fischer, Peter, Kraus, Marion, Tashima, Toshiyuki, Liebermeister, Lars, Altpeter, Philipp, Weinfurter, Harald
Rok vydání: 2016
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We experimentally demonstrate the propagation of long-range surface plasmon-polaritons in a nobel metal stripe waveguide at an optical wavelength of 780 nm. To minimize propagation damping the lithographically structured waveguide is produced from a thin gold stripe embedded in a dielectric polymer. Our waveguide geometry supports a symmetric fundamental and anti-symmetric first order mode. For the fundamental mode we measure a propagation loss of $(6.12^{+0.66} _{-0.54})$ dB/mm, in good agreement with numerical simulations using a vectorial eigenmode solver. Our results are a promising starting point for coupling fluorescence of individual solid state quantum emitters to integrated plasmonic waveguide structures.
Databáze: arXiv