Nonlinear switching in tapered plasmonic couplers

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2011

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Salgueiro, J
Kivshar, Yuri

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Abstract

We suggest using coupled tapered waveguides for compensating losses of surface plasmon polaritons to enhance the performance of plasmonic couplers operating at the nanoscale. We demonstrate that, by an appropriate choice of the taper angle, we can effectively suppress the mode attenuation achieving the effective power transfer in both linear and nonlinear couplers.

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Keywords: Nano scale; Nonlinear coupler; Nonlinear switching; Plasmonic; Power transfers; Surface plasmon polaritons; Taper angles; Tapered waveguide; Electric losses; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Natural language processing systems; Plasmons

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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Nonlinear Photonics, NLP 2011

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2037-12-31