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Surface-Wave Pulse Routing around Sharp Right Angles

Z. Gao1, H. Xu1, F. Gao1,4, Y. Zhang1, Y. Luo2,*, and B. Zhang1,3,†

  • 1Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
  • 2School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
  • 3Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  • *To whom correspondence should be addressed. luoyu@ntu.edu.sg
  • †To whom correspondence should be addressed. blzhang@ntu.edu.sg
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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 044019 – Published 16 April, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.044019

Abstract

Surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs), or localized electromagnetic surface waves propagating on a metal-dielectric interface, are deemed promising information carriers for future subwavelength terahertz and optical photonic circuitry. However, surface waves fundamentally suffer from scattering loss when encountering sharp corners in routing and interconnection of photonic signals. Previous approaches enabling scattering-free surface-wave guidance around sharp corners are limited to either volumetric waveguide environments or extremely narrow bandwidth, being unable to guide a surface-wave pulse (SPP wave packet) on an on-chip platform. Here, in a surface-wave band-gap crystal implemented on a single metal surface, we demonstrate in time-domain routing a surface-wave pulse around multiple sharp right angles without perceptible scattering. Our work not only offers a solution to on-chip surface-wave pulse routing along an arbitrary path, but it also provides spatiotemporal information on the interplay between surface-wave pulses and sharp corners, both of which are desirable in developing high-performance large-scale integrated photonic circuits.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 044019– Published 16 April, 2018
  • Received 25 July 2017
  • Revised 13 December 2017
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