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Evaluating Plasmonic Transport in Current-carrying Silver Nanowires
Published on: December 11, 2013
Numerical study of guided modes in arrays of metallic nanowires
C G Poulton1, M A Schmidt, G J Pearce
1Max-Plank Research Group (IOIP), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany. cpoulton@optik.uni-erlangen.de
Abstract:
We numerically investigate the band structure and guided modes within arrays of metallic nanowires. We show that bandgaps appear for a range of array geometries and that these can be used to guide light in these structures. Values of attenuation as low as 1.7 dB/cm are predicted for arrays of silver wires at communications wavelengths. This is more than 100 times smaller than the attenuation of the surface plasmon polariton modes on a single silver nanowire.
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