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LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 83-90Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400131
Keywords
surface plasmon polaritons; amplification; microwave frequency; broadband
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- National Science Foundation of China [60990320, 60990324, 61138001]
- National High Tech (863) Projects [2012AA030402, 2011AA010202]
- 111 Project [111-2-05]
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Efficient amplification of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is proposed at microwave frequencies by using a subwavelength-scale amplifier. For this purpose, a special plasmonic waveguide composed of two ultrathin corrugated metallic strips on top and bottom surfaces of a dielectric substrate with mirror symmetry is presented, which is easy to integrate with the amplifier. It is shown that spoof SPPs are able to propagate on the plasmonic waveguide in broadband with low loss and strong subwavelength effect. By loading a low-noise amplifier chip produced by the semiconductor technology, the first experiment is demonstrated to amplify spoof SPPs at microwave frequencies (from 6 to 20GHz) with high gain (around 20dB), which can be directly used as a SPP amplifier device. The features of strong field confinement, high efficiency, broadband operation, and significant amplification of the spoof SPPs may advance a big step towards other active SPP components and integrated circuits.
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