Publication # 353

353.        Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, David A.B. Miller, “Characteristic Impedance Model for Plasmonic Metal Slot Waveguides,” IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue on Surface Plasmon Photonics and Materials, 14 (6), 1473 – 1478 (2008) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.917534

We investigate the transmission properties of a subwavelength plasmonic slot waveguide. We show that the transmission can be accurately calculated using the characteristic impedance of the propagating mode. Using such a model, we show that it is possible to design devices without extensive 3D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) computer simulations. We illustrate the approach with calculations of an asymmetric Fabry-Perot germanium photodetector based on the slot waveguide geometry, showing predicted detector efficiencies as high as 69% despite metallic losses.

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