Transformational plasmonics: cloak, concentrator and rotator for SPPs
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Determination of the Excitation and Coupling Rates Between Light Emitters and Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Published on: July 21, 2018
Muamer Kadic1, Sebastien Guenneau, Stefan Enoch
1Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Campus universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, 13013 Marseille, France.
Abstract:
We adapt tools of transformation optics to surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating at the interface between two anisotropic media of opposite permittivity sign. We identify the role played by entries of anisotropic heterogeneous tensors of permittivity and permeability--deduced from a coordinate transformation--in the dispersion relation governing propagation of SPPs. We apply this concept to an invisibility cloak, a concentrator and a rotator for SPPs.

