End-fire coupling efficiencies of surface plasmons for silver, gold, and plasmonic nitride compounds

Fisher, C; Botten, LC; Poulton, CG; Mcphedran, RC; De Sterke, CM

End-fire coupling efficiencies of surface plasmons for silver, gold, and plasmonic nitride compounds

Fisher, C Botten, LC

Poulton, CG

Mcphedran, RC De Sterke, CM

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Citation:: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 2016, 33 (6), pp. 1044 - 1054
Issue Date:: 2016-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Fisher, C	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Botten, LC https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6471-6954	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Poulton, CG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2707-3424	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mcphedran, RC	en_US
dc.contributor.author	De Sterke, CM	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-06-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 2016, 33 (6), pp. 1044 - 1054	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0740-3224	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/98721
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Optical Society of America. We present a semi-analytical study exploring the end-fire coupling of a free-space incident beam into a surface plasmon propagating along the interface of a dielectric and a lossy plasmonic material. Using a projection method that calculates the surface plasmon coupling efficiencies for this configuration, we explain in detail how the challenges of including loss, and thus having complex permittivities, have been overcome. A comparison is made of the coupling efficiencies of four plasmonic materials: Ag, Au, TiN, and ZrN. We show that TiN has a consistently higher coupling efficiency than the other three materials for wavelengths between 0.5 and 2.0 μm. All four materials are capable of providing end-fire coupling efficiencies above 87% within this wavelength range.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1364/JOSAB.33.001044	en_US
dc.rights	© 2016 Optical Society of America. Users may use, reuse, and build upon the article, or use the article for text or data mining, so long as such uses are for non-commercial purposes and appropriate attribution is maintained. All other rights are reserved.	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Optics	en_US
dc.title	End-fire coupling efficiencies of surface plasmons for silver, gold, and plasmonic nitride compounds	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	6	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	33	en_US
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utslib.for	0105 Mathematical Physics	en_US
utslib.for	0102 Applied Mathematics	en_US
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science/School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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pubs.issue	6	en_US
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pubs.volume	33	en_US

Abstract:

© 2016 Optical Society of America. We present a semi-analytical study exploring the end-fire coupling of a free-space incident beam into a surface plasmon propagating along the interface of a dielectric and a lossy plasmonic material. Using a projection method that calculates the surface plasmon coupling efficiencies for this configuration, we explain in detail how the challenges of including loss, and thus having complex permittivities, have been overcome. A comparison is made of the coupling efficiencies of four plasmonic materials: Ag, Au, TiN, and ZrN. We show that TiN has a consistently higher coupling efficiency than the other three materials for wavelengths between 0.5 and 2.0 μm. All four materials are capable of providing end-fire coupling efficiencies above 87% within this wavelength range.

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