Papers Published

1. Degiron, Aloyse and Smith, David R., Numerical simulations of long-range plasmons, Optics Express, vol. 14 no. 4 (2006), pp. 1611 - 1625 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/16)

   Abstract:
   We present simulations of plasmonic transmission lines consisting of planar metal strips embedded in isotropic dielectric media, with a particular emphasis on the long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes that can be supported in such structures. Our computational method is based on analyzing the eigenfrequencies corresponding to the wave equation subject to a mixture of periodic, electric and magnetic boundary conditions. We demonstrate the accuracy of our approach through comparisons with previously reported simulations based on the semi-analytical method-of-lines. We apply our method to study a variety of aspects of long-range SPPs, including tradeoffs between mode confinement and propagation distance, the modeling of bent waveguides and the effect of disorder and periodicity on the long-ranging modes. © 2006 Optical Society of America.

   Keywords:
   Plasmas;Strip metal;Dielectric materials;Computer simulation;Boundary conditions;Computational methods;Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions;