• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권11호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2010

유전체 직각 릿지 표면 플라즈몬 도파로의 주요 파라미터인 모드 유효굴절률과 도파길이를 해석하였다. 여러 금속 및 유전체를 릿지의 폭과 두께를 변화시키며 유한요소법을 이용하여 계산하였다. 상반되는 두 파라미터를 포함하는 메트릭으로 2차원 figure of merit을 사용하였다. 계산결과를 이용하면 광통신 파장대역에서 파장이하로 모여 낮은 전파손실을 가진 도파로의 여러 파라미터 및 크기를 설계할 수 있다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.173-177
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• 2014

This study is aimed to the numerical modeling of the surface plasmon-polariton excitation by a layer of active (electrically pumped) quantum dots embedded in a semiconductor, covered with a metal. It is shown that this excitation becomes much more efficient if the metal has a form of a thin (with thickness of several nanometers) film. The cause of this enhancement in comparison with a thick covering metal film is the partial surface plasmon-polariton localized at the metal-semiconductor interface penetration into air. In result the real part of the metal+air half-space effective dielectric function becomes closer (in absolute value) to the real part of the semiconductor dielectric function than in the case of a thick covering metal film. This leads to approaching the point of the surface plasmon-polariton resonance (where absolute values of these parts coincide) and, therefore, the enhancement of the surface plasmon-polariton excitation. The calculations were made for a particular example of InAs quantum dot layer embedded in GaAs matrix covered with an Au film. Its results indicate that for the 10 nm Au film the rate of this excitation becomes by 2.5 times, and for the 5 nm Au film - by 6-7 times larger than in the case of a thick (40 nm or more) Au film.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.277-281
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• 2010

We propose a design and optimization method for a dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide using a genetic algorithm. This structure consists of a polymer ridge on top of two layers of substrate and gold film. The thickness, width and refractive index of the ridge are designed to optimize the figures of merit including mode confinement and propagation length. The modal analysis combined with the effective index method shows that the designed waveguide exhibits a fundamental propagation mode with high mode confinement while ensuring that the propagation loss remains relatively low.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2017

A compact plasmonic switching scheme, based on the phase change of a thin-film chalcogenide material ($Ge_2Sb_2Te_5$), is proposed and numerically investigated at optical-communication wavelengths. Surface plasmon polariton modal analysis is conducted for various thicknesses of dielectric and phase-change material layers, and the optimized condition is induced by finding the region of interest that shows a high extinction ratio of surface plasmon polariton modes before and after the phase transition. Full electromagnetic simulations show that multiple reflections inside the active region may conditionally increase the overall efficiency of the on/off ratio at a specific length of the active region. However, it is shown that the optimized geometrical condition, which shows generally large on/off ratio for any length of active region, can be distinguished by observing the multiple-reflection characteristic inside the active region. The proposed scheme shows an on/off switching ratio greater than 30 dB for a length of a few micrometers, which can be potentially applied to integrated active plasmonic systems.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2004

금속에서의 흥미로운 광학적 특성들은 주로 표면 폴라리톤(surface polaritons: SP)의 기여에 의해 나타난다. 물질상수(유전율과 투자율)가 모두 음수인 왼손잡이 물질(left-handed materials: LHM)의 표면에서도 두 종류의 SP인 표면 전기-폴라리톤(surface electric-polariton: SEP), 또는, 표면 자기-폴라리톤(surface magnetic-polariton: SMP)이 형성되어 군속도와 위상속도가 서로 반전되는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 금속물질과 LHM와 같은 메타물질(metamaterials)의 경계면에서 발생하는 SP의 전파특성을 분산관계를 통하여 분석하였다. 임의의 물질상수를 갖는 두 매질의 경계면에서 SEP와 SMP가 생성될 수 있는 일반화된 조건을 도출하였으며, 양쪽 매질을 통해 전파하는 에너지 비율의 차이에 의해 군속도와 위상속도가 반전된다는 물리적인 원인을 제안하였다. 도출된 SP 생성조건을 이용하여 금속물질과 메타물질의 경계면에서 전파하는 SEP와 SMP의 분산관계를 구하고, 주파수에 따라 다양한 SP의 전파특성이 나타날 수 있음을 보였다. SEP 및 SMP 분산관계로부터 구한 정량화 된 전파특성은 SP가 존재하기 위한 매질의 일반화된 조건과 에너지 전파 비율의 계산으로부터 얻은 결과와 일치함을 확인하였다. 특히, 두 매질 중 어느 한 매질이 LHM이 아니더라도 SP은 위상속도와 군속도가 반전되어 전파될 수 있음을 밝혀내었다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제25권
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• pp.84-88
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• 2018

At present, an important research area is the search for materials that are compatible with CMOS technology and achieve a satisfactory response rate and modulation efficiency. A strong local field of graphene surface plasmon polariton (SPP) can increase the interaction between light and graphene, reduce device size, and facilitate the integration of materials with CMOS. In this study, we design a new modulator of SPP-based cycle branch graphene waveguide. The structure comprises a primary waveguide of graphene-$LiNbO_3$-graphene, and a secondary cycle branch waveguide is etched on the surface of $LiNbO_3$. Part of the incident light in the primary waveguide enters the secondary waveguide, thus leading to a phase difference with the primary waveguide as reflected at the end of the branch and interaction coupling to enhance output light intensity. Through feature analysis, we discover that the area of the secondary waveguide shows significant localized fields and SPPs. Moreover, the cycle branch graphene waveguide can realize gain compensation, reduce transmission loss, and increase transmission distance. Numerical simulations show that the minimum effective mode field area is about $0.0130{\lambda}^2$, the gain coefficient is about $700cm^{-1}$, and the quality factor can reach 150. The structure can realize the mode field limits of deep subwavelength and achieve a good comprehensive performance.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.297.2-297.2
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• 2014

Strong exciton-photon coupling in microcavities have generated an intense research effort since quasiparticles called exciton polaritons are produced and shows interesting phenomena. Most of studies have been done with GaAs based microcavities at cryogenic temperature. Recently, GaN material which has large exciton binding energy and oscillator strength has much attention because strong coupling between photon and exciton could be realized at room temperature. However, fabrication of high quality microcavity using GaN is challengeable due to the large mismatch between the lattice and the thermal expansion coefficient in GaN based distributed Bragg mirror. Here, we observed strong coupling regime of exciton-photon in GaN micro-rods which were grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOCVD) on Si substrate. Owing to the hexagonal cross-section of micro-rod, whispering gallery modes of photon are naturally formed and could be coupled with exciton in GaN. Using angle-resolved micro-photoluminescence measurement, exciton polariton dispersion curves were directly observed from GaN micro-rod. We expect room temperature exciton polariton condensation could be realized in high quality GaN micro-rod.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.799-808
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• 2014

The mechanism of optical interaction of two nanoholes, milled in an opaque gold film, by means of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) propagation is investigated. The interaction depends on the polarization direction of the incident light when the nanohole pair is illuminated through uniform single antenna excitations. It is shown that by illuminating one of the nanoholes, under single antenna excitation, the other nanohole can be excited indirectly via propagated SPPs from the excited nanohole. In addition, it is found that the spectrum of electromagnetic power above the surface of the metallic film at an arbitrary point along the axis of the nanohole pair presents two resonant peaks. These peaks are due to the optical interaction between nanoholes, where the short- and long-wavelength peaks can be assigned to in-phase and antiphase interactions of magnetic dipoles relative to each nanohole, respectively. The magnetic coupled dipole approximation (MCDA) method confirms the simulation results.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.808-810
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• 2007

We demonstrate 10 Gbps optical signal transmission via long-range surface plasmon polaritons (LR-SPPs) in a very thin metal strip-guided geometry. The LR-SPP waveguide was fabricated as a 14 nm thick, 2.5 ${\mu}m$ wide, and 4 cm long gold strip embedded in a polymer and pigtailed with single-mode fibers. The total insertion loss of 16 dB was achieved at a wavelength of 1.55 ${\mu}m$ as a carrier wave. In a 10 Gbps optical signal transmission experiment, the LR-SPP waveguide exhibits an excellent eye opening and a 2.2 dB power penalty at $10^{-12}$ bit error rate. We confirm, for the first time, that LR-SPPs can efficiently transfer data signals as well as the carrier light.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2009년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.531-532
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• 2009