Substantial enlargement of angular existence range for Dyakonov-like surface waves at semi-infinite metal-dielectric superlattice Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We investigated surface waves guided by the boundary of a semi-infinite layered metal-dielectric nanostructure cut normally to the layers and a semi-infinite dielectric material. Using the Floquet-Bloch formalism, we found that Dyakonov-like surface waves with hybrid polarization can propagate in dramatically enhanced angular range compared to conventional birefringent materials. Our numerical simulations for an Ag-GaAs stack in contact with glass show a low to moderate influence of losses. 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Miret, J. J., Zapata-Rodriguez, C. J., Jaksic, Z., Vukovic, S., & Belic, M. R.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Miret, Juan J||Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J||Jaksic, Zoran||Vukovic, Slobodan||Belic, Milivoj R

publication date

  • November 2012