Peculiar features of surface plasmon-polariton modulation instability in a metal film with varying thickness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Korobko ◽  
Igor O. Zolotovskii ◽  
Sergey G. Moiseev ◽  
Andrei A. Fotiadi
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Modulation Instability ◽  
Varying Thickness ◽  
Plasmon Polariton

Evolution of surface plasmon-polariton wave in a thin metal film: The modulation-instability effect

2016 ◽  
Vol 529 (3) ◽  
pp. 1600167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Moiseev ◽  
Dmitry A. Korobko ◽  
Igor O. Zolotovskii ◽  
Andrei A. Fotiadi
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Modulation Instability ◽  
Thin Metal Film ◽  
Thin Metal ◽  
Polariton Wave ◽  
Instability Effect ◽  
Plasmon Polariton

THz pulse train generation through ultrafast development of surface plasmon-polariton modulation instability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry A Korobko ◽  
Igor O. Zolotovskii ◽  
Sergey Moiseev ◽  
Alexei S. Kadochkin ◽  
Vyacheslav Svetukhin
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Modulation Instability ◽  
Frequency Comb ◽  
Nonlinear Effects ◽  
Wave Dispersion ◽  
Instability Effect ◽  
Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Plasmon Wave

Abstract Propagation of high-intensity electromagnetic waves in a waveguide structure could initiate nonlinear effects resulting in drastic changes of their spatial and temporal characteristics. We study the modulation instability effect induced by propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in a silver thin-film waveguide. The nonlinear Schrodinger equation for propagating surface plasmon wave is obtained. It is shown numerically that the modulation instability effect can give rise to ultrafast spatial redistribution and longitudinal localization of surface plasmon-polariton wave energy in subwavelength scale. The dependence of plasmon wave dispersion and nonlinear characteristics on metal film thickness is considered. We demonstrate that the use of films with the thickness varying along the waveguide length allows reduction of the generated pulse width and increase of frequency comb bandwidth. The proposed technique is promising for design of ultra-compact (tens of nm) optical generators delivering pulse trains with the repetition rate higher than 1THz.

scholarly journals Relation between Resonance Parameters of Surface Plasmon-Polariton Waves with Properties of the Dielectric-Metal Film-Dielectric Waveguide

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2989
Author(s):  
Stefano Bellucci ◽  
Volodymyr Fitio ◽  
Andriy Bendziak ◽  
Iryna Yaremchuk ◽  
Yaroslav Bobitski
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Dielectric Waveguide ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Silver Film ◽  
Analytical Relation ◽  
Full Width ◽  
Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Analytical Relations ◽  
Film Dielectric

The resonant excitation of the surface plasmon–polariton waves by the prism structure, where a thin silver film was coated on the prism, was studied. New analytical relations between the angular and spectral sensitivities on the change of the medium refractive index, adjacent to the metal film, were obtained. In addition, the analytical relation between the full width at the half maximum of the spectral and angular resonance dependencies were found.

Effects of metal film thickness and gain on the coupling of organic semiconductor exciton emission to surface plasmon polaritons

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (42) ◽  
pp. 10111-10119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur K. Dalsania ◽  
Jesse Kohl ◽  
Cindy E. Kumah ◽  
Zeqing Shen ◽  
Christopher E. Petoukhoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Film Thickness ◽  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polaritons ◽  
Organic Semiconductor ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Exciton Emission ◽  
Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Plasmon Polaritons

This work presents an experimental investigation of enhancing surface plasmon polariton coupling to semiconductor emission by tailoring metal film thickness.

Energy-tunable photocatalysis by hot carriers generated by surface plasmon polaritons

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 7015-7024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wonmi Ahn ◽  
Igor Vurgaftman ◽  
Jeremy J. Pietron ◽  
Pehr E. Pehrsson ◽  
Blake S. Simpkins
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmon ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polaritons ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Surface Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Bare Metal ◽  
Hot Carriers ◽  
Carrier Generation ◽  
Hot Carrier ◽  
Plasmon Polariton ◽  
Plasmon Polaritons

Hot carrier generation by surface plasmon polariton was demonstrated in a metal/semiconductor heterofilm and a bare metal film for energy-tunable photocatalysis.

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