Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (1): 01000018, Published Online: Jul. 19, 2018   

Terahertz spoof surface-plasmon-polariton subwavelength waveguide Download: 1162次

Author Affiliations
1 Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, and the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology Tianjin, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, China
2 Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
3 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
4 e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu
Abstract
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with the features of subwavelength confinement and strong enhancements have sparked enormous interest. However, in the terahertz regime, due to the perfect conductivities of most metals, it is hard to realize the strong confinement of SPPs, even though the propagation loss could be sufficiently low. One main approach to circumvent this problem is to exploit spoof SPPs, which are expected to exhibit useful subwavelength confinement and relative low propagation loss at terahertz frequencies. Here we report the design, fabrication, and characterization of terahertz spoof SPP waveguides based on corrugated metal surfaces. The various waveguide components, including a straight waveguide, an S-bend waveguide, a Y-splitter, and a directional coupler, were experimentally demonstrated using scanning near-field terahertz microscopy. The proposed waveguide indeed enables propagation, bending, splitting, and coupling of terahertz SPPs and thus paves a new way for the development of flexible and compact plasmonic circuits operating at terahertz frequencies.

Ying Zhang, Yuehong Xu, Chunxiu Tian, Quan Xu, Xueqian Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Xixiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang. Terahertz spoof surface-plasmon-polariton subwavelength waveguide[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(1): 01000018.

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