Subwavelength confined terahertz waves on planar waveguides using metallic gratings

A terahertz plasmonic waveguide is experimentally demonstrated using a plastic ribbon waveguide integrated with a diffraction metal grating to approach subwavelength-scaled confinement and long-distance delivery. Appropriately adjusting the metal-thickness and the periodical slit width of a grating...

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Published in:Optics express 2013-03, Vol.21 (5), p.6009-6019
Main Authors: You, Borwen, Lu, Ja-Yu, Chang, Wei-Lun, Yu, Chin-Ping, Liu, Tze-An, Peng, Jin-Long
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Language:English
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Summary:A terahertz plasmonic waveguide is experimentally demonstrated using a plastic ribbon waveguide integrated with a diffraction metal grating to approach subwavelength-scaled confinement and long-distance delivery. Appropriately adjusting the metal-thickness and the periodical slit width of a grating greatly improves both guiding ability and field confinement in the hybrid waveguide structure. The measured lateral decay length of the bound terahertz surface waves on the hybrid waveguide can be reduced to less than λ/4 after propagating a waveguide of around 50mm-long in length. The subwavelength-confined field is potentially advantageous to biomolecular sensing or membrane detection because of the long interaction length between the THz field and analytes.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.21.006009