基于表面等离子体的光隔离器-光学专业论文.docxVIP

哈尔滨 哈尔滨工业大学工学硕士学位论文 - - II - Abstract The optical isolator is a necessary non-resource optical element in modern optical system. An optical isolator prevents optical resource or optical elements damaged by reflected optics. The common optical isolator base on Faraday rotation and this is a mature technology. The size of the common optical isolator is about several centimeters. However, this is not suitable for light path integration. The Surface Plasmon Polaritons is a hot field of Nanophotonics. It comes from the oscillation of electrons and propagates at the interface of a metal and a dielectric. SPP is a slow wave. The wavelength of it is one of ten of the excitation optics. For this reason, it can be used in optical elements and there are some reports about this research. We have designed two modes of optical isolators which base on the theory of SPP. The first mode makes use of the nonreciprocal coupling of waveguides. We formulate a dielectric waveguide and a SPP waveguide which is composed by some magneto-optical material. When at the forward direction, the light propagates successfully for the mismatching of the two propagation constants. At the reverse direction, however, the light is lost because of the effective coupling of the two waveguides. The second mode is also based on the nonreciprocal coupling of the two waveguides, but there is a fault in the dielectric waveguide. We also formulate a dielectric waveguide and a SPP waveguide while the material of the two waveguides is not the same with the first mode. When at the forward direction, the light couples into the metallic waveguides. And with the SPP, the light propagates successfully through the fault of the mode. At the reverse direction, however, the light is not able to couple into the metallic waveguide for the mismatching of the phase. The light is isolated for the nonexistent of the waveguide structure in the fault of the mode. Keywords: optical isolator, Surface Plasmon Polaritons