Surface Plasmon Bragg Gratings__ Formed in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides教程.pdfVIP

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 19, NO. 2, JANUARY 15, 2007 91 Surface Plasmon Bragg Gratings Formed in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides Zhanghua Han, Erik Forsberg, Member, IEEE, and Sailing He, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—We propose and numerically analyze surface plasmon Bragg gratings formed by a periodic variation of the width of the insulator in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide. The results indi- cate that very good filtering characteristics can be achieved in these plasmonic Bragg gratings. To suppress the sidelobes in the trans- mission spectrum, we further propose S-shaped Bragg cells and find better performance. By introducing a defect into the grating, a defect state with high -value is introduced into the bandgap and a Fabry–Pérot-like structure is formed. Index Terms—Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide, surface plasmon, waveguide Bragg grating (WBG). I. INTRODUCTION Fig. 1. Real part of the effective refractive index of an MIM waveguide as a SURFACE plasmon polariton (SPP) [1] is an electro- function of width of the insulator at free space wavelength of 1550 nm. Inset: schematic picture of an MIM waveguide, where the insulator (white) is em- Amagnetic excitation at the interface of a noble metal bedded between two metal sheets (gray). In this letter, the insulator is assumed and a dielectric, which can be utilized to manipulate light at to be air and the metal silver. a subwavelength scale. As present-day advanced processing techniques allow for the fabrication of subwavelength pho-