Efficient excitation and control of arbitrary surface plasmon polariton beams using one-dimensional metallic gratings

Bar-Lev, Doron; Arie, Ady; Scheuer, Jacob; Epstein, Itai

doi:10.1364/josab.32.000923

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“…Furthermore, encoding of high spatial frequencies is accompanied by a smaller geometrical features in the plasmonic hologram, which in turn, relates to the fabrication resolution. It is also noticeable that this approach does not easily allow to change dynamically the properties of the launched plasmonic beam, as demonstrated in since once fabricated, the NFH cannot be changed.…”

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“…This is achieved by dynamically changing the phase of the free‐space beam using a SLM, which in turn affects the trajectory of the coupled Airy plasmon. This approach, however, can work well only for paraxial beams, such as the Airy beam, as this kind of linear coupling relation, between the free‐space beam and the plasmonic beam, can only hold under the paraxial approximation . For generation of more complex and nonparaxial beams, this coupling approach requires a more careful structuring of the properties of the illuminating free‐space beam in order to obtain greater control on the generated plasmon .…”

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Surface‐plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near‐field holography

Epstein

Tsur

Arie

2016

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Surface‐plasmon‐polariton waves are two‐dimensional electromagnetic surface waves that propagate at the interface between a metal and a dielectric. These waves exhibit unusual and attractive properties, such as high spatial confinement and enhancement of the optical field, and are widely used in a variety of applications, such as sensing and subwavelength optics. The ability to precisely control the spatial and spectral properties of the surface‐plasmon wave is required in order to support the growing interest in both research and applications of plasmonic waves, and to bring it to the next level. Here, we review the challenges and methods for shaping the wavefront and spectrum of plasmonic waves. In particular, we present the recent advances in plasmonic spatial and spectral shaping, which are based on the realization of plasmonic holograms for the optical nearfield.

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Section: Comparison Between the Different Methods Of Spp Spatial Shapingmentioning

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Section: Comparison Between the Different Methods Of Spp Spatial Shapingmentioning

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Surface‐plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near‐field holography

Epstein

Tsur

Arie

2016

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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“…By utilizing a fixed, simple meta-coupler and controlling the profile (phase and amplitude) of the free-space impinging field, it is possible to excite dynamically any desired SPP profile. This concept was proposed and demonstrated by Bar-Lev et al and later by Qiu et al …”

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Optical Metasurfaces Are Coming of Age: Short- and Long-Term Opportunities for Commercial Applications

Scheuer

2020

ACS Photonics

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In the past several years, metasurfaces have emerged as one of the rapidly growing research fields in optics. These ultrathin arrays composed of subwavelength meta-atoms enable precise control of the various aspects of electromagnetic waves and have been proposed for a wide variety of applications such as lenses, polarization control, holography, coloration, spectroscopy, and many more. Due to recent advancements in nanofabrication processes as well as dramatic improvements in the performances of metasurfaces (efficiency, bandwidth, etc.), this technology has matured sufficiently to be incorporated into commercial applications. In this perspective, the various applications of metasurfaces are briefly reviewed, with focus put on the maturity level of the technology and applications for commercialization. First, the principal properties of metasurfaces are introduced, and the various potential applications are reviewed. Then, the maturity level of metasurface technology for these applications is discussed in terms of the potential added value, cost, and timeline. Finally, an outlook of the short-, intermediate-, and long-term opportunities for real-life applications is presented as well as the long-range challenges for future applications.

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“…In order to make full use of the advantages of surface plasmons and overcome the problem of limited propagation distance, recently, in-plane excitation and manipulation of SPP beams have attracted researchers’ attention. Researchers have proposed a series of two-dimensional (2D) optical surface beams with properties of non-diffracting and self-reconstructing, such as generation of plasmonic Bessel-like [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19], Airy [20,21], Mathieu and Weber [22], bottle beams [23,24,25,26,27] and arbitrary bending plasmonic light beams [28,29]. Among these nondiffracting SPP beams, plasmonic Bessel-like beam is the most common one, which has a straight trajectory and maintains its transverse profile over a certain distance.…”

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Polarization Controllable Device for Simultaneous Generation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Bessel-Like Beams and Bottle Beams

Qiu

Zhang

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Nanomaterials

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Realizing multiple beam shaping functionalities in a single plasmonic device is crucial for photonic integration. Both plasmonic Bessel-like beams and bottle beams have potential applications in nanophotonics, particularly in plasmonic based circuits, near field optical trapping, and micro manipulation. Thus, it is very interesting to find new approaches for simultaneous generation of surface plasmon polariton Bessel-like beams and bottle beams in a single photonic device. Two types of polarization-dependent devices, which consist of arrays of spatially distributed sub-wavelength rectangular slits, are designed. The array of slits are specially arranged to construct an X-shaped or an IXI-shaped array, namely X-shaped device and IXI-shaped devices, respectively. Under illumination of circularly polarized light, plasmonic zero-order and first-order Bessel-like beams can be simultaneously generated on both sides of X-shaped devices. Plasmonic Bessel-like beam and bottle beam can be simultaneously generated on both sides of IXI-shaped devices. By changing the handedness of circularly polarized light, for both X-shaped and IXI-shaped devices, the positions of the generated plasmonic beams on either side of device can be dynamically interchanged.

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Efficient excitation and control of arbitrary surface plasmon polariton beams using one-dimensional metallic gratings

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Surface‐plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near‐field holography

Surface‐plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near‐field holography

Optical Metasurfaces Are Coming of Age: Short- and Long-Term Opportunities for Commercial Applications

Polarization Controllable Device for Simultaneous Generation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Bessel-Like Beams and Bottle Beams

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