Front Cover

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Title Page

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Contents

Preface

Contributors

1 Introduction: Plasmonics and its Building Blocks

1.1 Surface Plasmon Polaritons

1.2 Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances

1.3 Constructions

1.3.1 Excitation and Observation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

1.3.2 Guiding of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

1.3.3 Attenuation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons and its Suppression

1.3.4 Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering from Surface Defects

1.3.5 Accelerating Surface Plasmon Polaritons

1.3.6 Surface Plasmon Polariton Lasers

1.3.7 Transformation Optics

1.3.8 Plasmonic Metamaterials

1.3.9 Nanoparticles on Substrates

1.3.10 Surface Shape Resonances

1.3.11 Fabrication of Nanoparticles

1.3.12 Some Applications of Nanoparticles

1.3.13 Quantum Plasmonics

1.4 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

2 The Basics of Plasmonics

2.1 Surface Electromagnetic Waves

2.2 The Dispersion Relation and Character of Surface Electromagnetic Waves

2.3 Plasmons, Surface Plasmons, and Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

2.3.1 Plasmonic Excitations

2.3.2 Properties of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

2.3.3 Coupled Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

2.4 Different Types of Surface Electromagnetic Waves

2.5 Excitation of Surface Waves

2.5.1 Prism Coupling

2.5.2 Grating Coupling

2.6 Localized Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

2.6.1 The Quasi-Static Model

2.6.2 The Modified Long-Wavelength Approximation

2.6.3 Full Electrodynamic Solutions

2.7 Summary

References

3 Optical Properties of Strongly Coupled Plasmonic Nanoparticle Clusters

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Optical Properties of Single Particles

3.2.1 Shape Effects: Nanospheres, Nanorods, and Dumbbells

3.2.2 Substrate Influence

3.2.3 Single Particle Spectroscopy

3.3 Optical Properties of Strongly Coupled Clusters

3.3.1 Nanosphere Chains

3.3.2 Symmetric 2D Trimers and 3D Tetramers

3.3.3 Experimental Realization of Nearly Symmetric 2D and 3D Clusters

3.3.4 Symmetry Breaking in 2D Trimers and Tetramers

3.3.5 Nanorod Dimers Aligned End-to-End

3.3.6 Nanorods Arranged in Different Geometric Arrangements

3.3.7 End-to-End Rod-Sphere-Rod Trimers With Different Angles

3.4 Cavity Modes in Laterally Aligned Nanorod Clusters

3.4.1 Bulk Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides

3.4.2 Cavity Modes in Laterally Aligned Nanorod Clusters

3.5 Summary

Acknowledgments

References

4 Plasmonic Optical Nanoantennas

4.1 Introduction

4.2 General Properties of Plasmonic Nanoantennas and Their Nanocircuit Model

4.3 Radiation Properties, Loading, Matching, and Tuning of Nanoantennas

4.4 Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Magnetic Effects and Metamaterials

4.5 Nanoantenna Metasurfaces to Manipulate the Nanoscale

4.6 Enhanced Optical Fields and Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale

4.7 Nanoantenna Fabrication and Characterization

4.8 Nanoantennas for Energy Harvesting

4.9 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

5 Waveguiding with Surface Plasmon Polaritons

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Planar Surface Plasmon Polariton Modes

5.2.1 Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs)

5.2.2 SPP Modes of Thin Metal Films

5.2.3 Gap SPP Modes

5.3 SPP Waveguides

5.3.1 SPP Guiding by Dielectric Ridges

5.3.2 SPP Guided by Metal Stripes

5.3.3 Slot and Gap Waveguides

5.3.4 Channel Plasmon Polaritons

5.3.5 SPP Guiding by Nanowires

5.3.6 SPP Guiding Along Metal Wedges

5.3.7 Comparison of SPP Waveguides

5.4 SPP Waveguide Components

5.4.1 Passive SPP Components (Bends and Splitters)

5.4.2 Wavelength Selective SPP Components

5.4.3 Radiation Modulation with SPP Components

5.4.4 SPP Generation and Detection

5.4.5 Quantum Plasmonics

5.5 Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

6 Alternative Plasmonic Materials

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Plasmonic Materials

6.3 Optical Properties of Metals

6.4 Elusive Lossless Metal

6.5 Conventional Metals Used in Plasmonics

6.5.1 Problems with Noble Metals

6.6 Finding Alternatives

6.6.1 Semiconductors to Metals

6.6.2 Band Engineering by Alloying

6.6.3 Metals to ``Less-Metals''

6.6.4 Two-Dimensional (2D) Plasmonic Materials

6.7 Comparative Study

6.7.1 SPP Waveguiding

6.7.2 LSPR Applications

6.7.3 Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) Applications

6.7.4 Tunable Devices

6.7.5 Metamaterials (NIMs, TO, and HMMs)

6.8 Summary and Outlook

References

7 Surface Electromagnetic Waves on Structured Perfectly Conducting Surfaces

7.1 One-Dimensional Perfectly Conducting Surfaces: Theory

7.2 Two-Dimensional Perfectly Conducting Surfaces: Theory

7.2.1 A Modal Approach

7.2.2 The Rayleigh Method

7.3 Experimental Results

7.3.1 One-Dimensional Surfaces

7.3.2 Two-Dimensional Surfaces

7.4 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

8 Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Complex Settings and Generalized Geometries

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Shaping Plasmons via Phase and Amplitude Control

8.2.1 Accelerating Plasmons and Airy Beams

8.2.2 Unidirectional and Collimated Plasmons

8.3 Surface Plasmons in Metamaterials

8.3.1 Linear Waves

8.3.2 Nonlinear Waves

8.3.3 Plasmonic Tamm States

8.4 Plasmons in Graphene Structures

8.4.1 General Remarks

8.4.2 Plasmons Tunable by an External Magnetic Field

8.4.3 Nonlinear Plasmons Supported by a Graphene Layer

8.5 Conclusion and Outlook

References

9 Transformation Optics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

9.1 Transformational Optics

9.1.1 Basics

9.1.2 Mathematics of Transformational Optics

9.1.3 Carpet of Li and Pendry

9.2 From Transformational Optics to Plasmonics

9.2.1 Introduction

9.2.2 Surface Plasmon between a Metal and an Anisotropic Medium

9.3 Plasmonic Carpet: Design of Plasmonic Paradigms

9.3.1 Surface Plasmon Carpets: Theoretical Study

9.3.2 Gaussian-Shaped Bump in a Flat Box

9.3.3 Surface Plasmon Carpets: Experimental Study

9.3.4 Numerical Example

9.3.5 Experimental Example

9.4 Plasmonic Cloak

9.4.1 Plasmonic Cloak: Numerical Study

9.4.2 Multilayered SPP Cloak

9.5 Surface Plasmon Polariton Devices and Transformational Plasmonics

9.5.1 Concentrator

9.5.2 Beam Splitter

9.6 Conclusion

References

10 Amplification and Lasing with Surface Plasmon Polaritons

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Planar SPP Waveguide Structures

10.2.1 One-Dimensional Structures

10.2.2 Two-Dimensional Structures

10.2.3 Quantum Processes Involving SPPs

10.3 Amplification and Lasing with Single-Interface SPPs

10.3.1 Theoretical

10.3.2 Experimental

10.4 Amplification and Lasing with Symmetric Metal Films

10.4.1 Theoretical—Gratings

10.4.2 Theoretical—Films and Stripes

10.4.3 Experimental

10.5 Amplification and Lasing in Metal-Cladded Waveguides

10.5.1 Theoretical

10.5.2 Experimental

10.6 Amplification and Lasing in Other SPP Structures

10.6.1 Dielectric-Loaded SPP Waveguides

10.6.2 Hybrid SPP Waveguides

10.6.3 Nanostructures

10.7 Concluding Remarks

References

11 Nonlinear Plasmonics

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Linear and Nonlinear Surface Plasmon-Polariton Modes

11.3 Nonlinearity of TM and TE Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

11.4 Behavior of Nonlinear Surface Plasmon-Polaritons

11.5 Using Second-harmonics to Stimulate Surface Plasmon-Polariton Conversion to Bright and Dark Solitons

11.6 Enhancing Nonlinearity and Controlling Light with Light

11.7 All-Optical Switching in Plasmonic Waveguides

11.8 Nonlinear Plasmonic Crystals for Switching and Bistability

11.9 Nonlinear Plasmonic Metamaterials

11.10 Conclusions

References

12 Quantum Plasmonics

12.1 Introduction

12.1.1 Generation and Detection of Single Surface Plasmons

12.1.2 Fundamental Quantum Properties of SPPs

12.1.3 Quantum Interaction of Matter and SPPs

12.2 Spontaneous Emission of a Single Emitter in a Plasmonic Environment

12.3 Plasmonic Waveguide-Mediated Generation of Two-Qubit Entanglement

12.4 Strong Coupling between SPPs and Qubit Ensembles

12.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

13 Flexible and Self-Assembled Plasmonics

13.1 Flexible Plasmonics

13.2 Self-Assembly of Strongly Coupled Plasmonic Architectures

13.2.1 Chemical Linkers Between Nanoparticles

13.2.2 DNA Linkers

13.2.3 Template Self-Assembly

13.2.4 Constrained Self-Assembly

Acknowledgments

References

14 Plasmonics in Imaging, Biodetection, and Nanolasers

14.1 Imaging of a Propagating SPP Wave

14.2 SPR Dispersion Relation

14.2.1 SPR Dispersion of a 2-D Metallic Nanohole Array

14.2.2 Polarization Weighting of Fano-Type Transmission Through Metallic Nanohole Arrays

14.2.3 Optimization of SPP Resonance Lineshape

14.2.4 Polarization Dependence of Dielectric Polarizabilities: Plasmonic form Birefringence

14.3 SPR Sensing

14.3.1 SPR Effective Refractive Index Based Sensor

14.3.2 Single Resonator Nanosensor

14.4 SPR Assisted Lasing

14.4.1 Metallo-Dielectric Subwavelength Laser

14.4.2 Thresholdless Nanolaser

References

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