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Waveguide Structures<br />

Plasmonic slotline waveguide (PSWG)<br />

Description<br />

Geometry<br />

and materials<br />

© ABB <strong>Group</strong><br />

July 8, 2009 | Slide 8<br />

A plasmonic slotline is an air slot in a thin silver film deposited on a<br />

silica substrate.<br />

The dimensions of the slot are much smaller than the wavelength.<br />

The goal is to find a bound optical mode supported by the slotline.<br />

50nm<br />

Silver<br />

50nm<br />

Silica<br />

Silver<br />

G. Veronis et al., “Guided subwavelength plasmonic mode supported by a<br />

slot in a thin metal film”, <strong>Optics</strong> Letters, Vol. 30, pp. 3359-3361, 2005.

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