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Plasmonic Bloch oscillations in chirped metal-dielectric structures

Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 161105 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3119666

Published 21 April 2009

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Artur R. Davoyan, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
We study the propagation of plasmon polaritons in one-dimensional chirped metal-dielectric layered structures. We find an optical Wannier–Stark ladder in the mode spectrum and analyze Bloch oscillations associated with the coupling of surface plasmons localized at the metal-dielectric interfaces. For long structures, we find that the energy flow may dramatically change its direction, thus providing possibilities for the beam steering in the transmission band. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 26 November 2008; accepted 24 February 2009; published 21 April 2009
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Keywords
PACS
  • 73.20.Mf
    Collective excitations (surface/interface states)
  • 71.36.+c
    Polaritons
  • YEAR: 2009

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