2012
DOI: 10.1021/nl204265f
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Giant Coupling Effect between Metal Nanoparticle Chain and Optical Waveguide

Abstract: We demonstrate that the optical energy carried by a TE dielectric waveguide mode can be totally transferred into a transverse plasmon mode of a coupled metal nanoparticle chain. Experiments are performed at 1.5 μm. Mode coupling occurs through the evanescent field of the dielectric waveguide mode. Giant coupling effects are evidenced from record coupling lengths as short as ∼560 nm. This result opens the way to nanometer scale devices based on localized plasmons in photonic integrated circuits.

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“…A lot of attention has been devoted in recent years to on-chip hybrid devices where plasmonic nanoantennas have been integrated with standard silicon nitride Si 3 N 4 photonic waveguides. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The transparency of silicon nitride extends towards the visible, thus making it an ideal platform for observing plasmon spectroscopy in the visible and near IR, i.e. the spectral range of interest for plasmonic nanostructures.…”
Section: © 2017 Author(s) All Article Content Except Where Otherwismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A lot of attention has been devoted in recent years to on-chip hybrid devices where plasmonic nanoantennas have been integrated with standard silicon nitride Si 3 N 4 photonic waveguides. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The transparency of silicon nitride extends towards the visible, thus making it an ideal platform for observing plasmon spectroscopy in the visible and near IR, i.e. the spectral range of interest for plasmonic nanostructures.…”
Section: © 2017 Author(s) All Article Content Except Where Otherwismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, it is still a great challenge to focus a single propagating photon into a single plasmonic nanostructure efficiently due to the huge scale mismatch among photons, metallic nanostructures and molecules. To realize the excitation of LSPs, so far various methods had been proposed, such as prism coupling [14,15], objective lens (free-space excitation) [16], silicon on insulator waveguides [17], and tapered fibers [18,19]. Among these methods, optical tapered fibers with subwavelength diameter are particularly promising in view of their highly efficient LSPs excitation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
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“…Our best fabrication result was published in a conference paper [Conf 23], but no journal publication has been written. During our attempts, however, another group published the same geometry, managing to show and measure the expected resonances [235][236][237]. To date we are attempting to replicate such published works, but have not yet succeeded.…”
Section: Our Work: Nanoparticles On a Silicon Waveguidementioning
confidence: 99%