Plasmonic circuit for second-order spatial differentiation at the subwavelength scale. 2018

Yongsop Hwang, and Timothy J Davis, and Jiao Lin, and Xiao-Cong Yuan

We suggest a plasmonic nanodevice for performing the second-order spatial derivative of light fields. The device consists of five gold nanorods arranged to evanescently couple to each other so that emit cross-polarized output proportional to the second-order differentiation of the incident wave. A theoretical model based on the electrostatic eigenmode analysis is derived and numerical simulations using the finite-difference time-domain methods are provided as supporting evidence. It is shown in both the analytic and numerical methods that the proposed plasmonic circuit performs second-order differentiation of the phase of the incident light field in transmission mode with a subwavelength planar resolution. The resolution of 0.29 λ-1 is numerically demonstrated for a 20 nm thick circuit at the wavelength of 700 nm. The suggested plasmonic device has potential application in miniaturized systems for all-optical computation.

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