On-chip trans-dimensional plasmonic router
Author:
Dong Shaohua12, Zhang Qing2ORCID, Cao Guangtao2, Ni Jincheng2, Shi Ting2, Li Shiqing3, Duan Jingwen3, Wang Jiafu4, Li Ying1, Sun Shulin3ORCID, Zhou Lei5, Hu Guangwei2, Qiu Cheng-Wei2
Affiliation:
1. SZU–NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology , International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education , Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics , Shenzhen University , Shenzhen, 518060 , China 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , Kent Ridge , Singapore, 117583 , Singapore 3. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultra-Precision Optical Manufacturing , Green Photonics and Department of Optical Science and Engineering , Fudan University , Shanghai, 200433 , PR China 4. Department of Basic Sciences , Airforce Engineering University , Xian, 710051 , PR China 5. State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education) , Fudan University , Shanghai, 200433 , PR China
Abstract
Abstract
Plasmons, as emerging optical diffraction-unlimited information carriers, promise the high-capacity, high-speed, and integrated photonic chips. The on-chip precise manipulations of plasmon in an arbitrary platform, whether two-dimensional (2D) or one-dimensional (1D), appears demanding but non-trivial. Here, we proposed a meta-wall, consisting of specifically designed meta-atoms, that allows the high-efficiency transformation of propagating plasmon polaritons from 2D platforms to 1D plasmonic waveguides, forming the trans-dimensional plasmonic routers. The mechanism to compensate the momentum transformation in the router can be traced via a local dynamic phase gradient of the meta-atom and reciprocal lattice vector. To demonstrate such a scheme, a directional router based on phase-gradient meta-wall is designed to couple 2D SPP to a 1D plasmonic waveguide, while a unidirectional router based on grating metawall is designed to route 2D SPP to the arbitrarily desired direction along the 1D plasmonic waveguide by changing the incident angle of 2D SPP. The on-chip routers of trans-dimensional SPP demonstrated here provide a flexible tool to manipulate propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and may pave the way for designing integrated plasmonic network and devices.
Funder
A*STAR Pharos Program National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Biotechnology
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