Sub-wavelength dielectric-loaded surface plasma optical waveguide

Abstract

The invention discloses a dielectric-loaded surface plasma optical waveguide with a sub-wavelength optical field limit capacity. The cross section of the waveguide structure comprises a dielectric basement layer (1), a metal area (2), a low-refractive-index dielectric area (3), a high-refractive-index dielectric area (4) and a cladding (5), wherein the metal area (2) is positioned on the basementlayer, the low-refractive-index dielectric area (3) is used for cladding the metal area, and the high-refractive-index dielectric area is used for cladding the metal area and the low-refractive-indexdielectric area. As the high-refractive-index dielectric area exists, the distribution range of optical fields of the waveguide structure can be significantly shrunk, and the two-dimension sub-wavelength restriction for transmission optical fields is realized. Meanwhile, as the low-refractive-index dielectric area exists, the waveguide still can keep lower transmission loss. The optical waveguidegreatly realizes the balance between the optical field limit capacity and the transmission loss and provides probability for the realization of an optical waveguide chip with an ultrahigh integrated level.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of optical waveguides, in particular to a subwavelength medium-loaded surface plasmon polariton optical waveguide. Background technique [0002] In recent years, surface plasmon photonics technology has shown great application potential in the field of nanophotonics due to its unique advantages. Surface plasmons are a type of electromagnetic wave mode caused by the interaction of light and free electrons on metal surfaces. This mode exists near the interface between the metal and the medium, and its field strength reaches the maximum at the interface and decays exponentially along the direction perpendicular to the interface on both sides of the interface. Surface plasmons have strong field confinement properties, which can confine the field energy to a region whose spatial size is much smaller than its free-space transmission wavelength, and its properties can change with the structure of the metal surface...

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[0006] The purpose of the present invention is to overcome the defects of large mode field area and poor confinement ability of the medium-loaded surface plasmon optical waveguide based on low refractive index materials, and propose a medium with subwavelength mode field confinement capability and lower transmission loss Loaded Surface Plasmon Optical Waveguide Structure

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