Light squeezing through arbitrarily shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends

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light transmission
metamaterials
MIM structures
optical squeezing
optical waveguides
plasmons
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We propose a mechanism for optical energy squeezing and anomalous light transmission through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic ultranarrow channels and bends connecting two larger plasmonic metal-insulator-metal waveguides. It is shown how a proper design of subwavelength optical channels at cutoff, patterned by plasmonic implants and connecting larger plasmonic waveguides, may allow enhanced resonant transmission inspired by the anomalous properties of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials. The resonant transmission is shown to be only weakly dependent on the channel length and its specific geometry, such as possible presence of abruptions and bends.

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2008-07-01
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Copyright 2008 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. Reprinted in Physical Review B, Volume 78, Article 035440, July 2008. Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035440
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