Dipolar modeling and experimental demonstration of multi-beam plasmonic collimators

We designed a new class of plasmonic gratings that generate multiple free-space beams in arbitrary directions from a point source of surface waves, using a phenomenological model that accurately predicts their far-field, in amplitude, phase and polarization. We fabricated such gratings on the facets of semiconductor lasers. The plasmonic gratings proposed here are generally relevant to the interfacing of nanoscale optical components to free-space beams. The model introduced here can be used to design general two-dimensional plasmonic gratings.

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