Plasmonics for telecommunications applications

WO F. Carvalho, JR Mejía-Salazar - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plasmonic materials, when properly illuminated with visible or near-infrared wavelengths,
exhibit unique and interesting features that can be exploited for tailoring and tuning the light …

Optical slot antennas and their applications to photonic devices

Y Park, J Kim, YG Roh, QH Park - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
We present optical slot antennas and their applications to photonic devices. We show that
metallic nanoslots have the properties of a slot antenna by measuring the transmission …

Infrared resonance tuning of nanoslit antennas with phase-change materials

L Conrads, A Heßler, L Völkel, K Wilden, A Strauch… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phase-change materials (PCMs) have been established as prime candidates for nonvolatile
resonance tuning of nanophotonic components based on a large optical contrast between …

Harnessing evanescent waves by bianisotropic metasurfaces

L Li, K Yao, Z Wang, Y Liu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The exponentially decaying nature of evanescent waves renders it difficult to capture, extract
and engineer the wealth of energy and information that they can carry. Utilizing the out‐of …

Broadband nanophotonic wireless links and networks using on-chip integrated plasmonic antennas

Y Yang, Q Li, M Qiu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Owing to their high capacity and flexibility, broadband wireless communications have been
widely employed in radio and microwave regimes, playing indispensable roles in our daily …

Directivity-enhanced detection of a single nanoparticle using a plasmonic slot antenna

B Wu, Y Lou, D Wu, Q Min, X Wan, H Zhang, Y Yu… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
In situ refractive index sensors integrated with nanoaperture-based optical tweezers
possess stable and sensitive responsivity to single nanoparticles. In most existing works …

Controlling electric and magnetic resonances for ultracompact nanoantennas with tunable directionality

K Yao, Y Liu - ACS Photonics, 2016 - ACS Publications
We design and numerically demonstrate an ultracompact plasmonic nanoantenna with
tunable high directionality. The antenna consists of a metallic trimer that can support a highly …

Asymmetric excitation of surface plasmon polaritons via paired slot antennas for angstrom displacement sensing

T Zang, H Zang, Z Xi, J Du, H Wang, Y Lu, P Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical antennas enable efficient coupling between propagating light and bonding
electromagnetic waves like surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Under the illumination of …

Design of plasmonic Yagi–Uda nanoantennas for chip-scale optical wireless communications

GHB Damasceno, WOF Carvalho, JR Mejía-Salazar - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Optical wireless transmission has recently become a major cutting-edge alternative for on-
chip/inter-chip communications with higher transmission speeds and improved power …

Limits of Babinet's principle for solid and hollow plasmonic antennas

M Horák, V Křápek, M Hrtoň, A Konečná, F Ligmajer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We present an experimental and theoretical study of Babinet's principle of complementarity
in plasmonics. We have used spatially-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy and …