Abstract
Decreasing the widths and thicknesses of thin metal stripes can effectively
increase the propagation distance of long-range surface plasmon polaritons, but at the
cost of significant reduction on the overall mode confinement, which fundamentally
limits the packing density in nanophotonic integration. By utilizing the coupling
between the dielectric waveguide and plasmonic modes, we propose a silicon-based 3-D
hybrid long-range plasmonic waveguide that not only supports long-range propagation, but
also has compact modal size. Our simulation result shows that a propagation distance of
696 μm with an ultrasmall modal area of 0.0013 μm<sup>2</sup> can be simultaneously
achieved at 1.55 μm.
© 2011 IEEE
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