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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 7519-7524Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007519
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- DARPA [HR0011-05-3-0002 a]
- NSF Nanoscale Science and Technology Center (NSEC) [CMMI-0751621]
- Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) [KRF-2006-352-D00020]
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A major challenge in optics is how to deliver and concentrate light from the micron-scale into the nano-scale. Light can not be guided, by conventional mechanisms, with optical beam sizes significantly smaller than its wavelength due to the diffraction limit. On the other hand, focusing of light into very small volumes beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved by exploiting the wavelength scalability of surface plasmon polaritons. By slowing down an optical wave and shrinking its wavelength during its propagation, optical energy can be compressed and concentrated down to nanometer scale, namely, nanofocusing. Here, we experimentally demonstrate and quantitatively measure the nanofocusing of surface plasmon polaritons in tapered metallic V-grooves down to the deep sub-wavelength scale - lambda/40 at wavelength of 1.5 micron - with almost 50% power efficiency. (c) 2009 Optical Society of America
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