Unidirectional optical coupling for plasmonic waveguide based on metallic-dielectric high-contrast gratings

Based on the metallic-dielectric high contrast gratings, we proposed two new different schemes to achieve the unidirectional coupling of incident free-space light into the plasmonic waveguides. Using the cascaded metal-air subgratings (structure 1) or metallic-dielectric subwavelength periodic gratings (structure 2), the ultra-broadband and wideangular SPPs excitation could be both achieved. The operation principle and performance of the structures are analyzed and discussed, respectively.

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