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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 42: Poster I: Progress in Micro- and Nanopatterning: Techniques and Applications (jointly with O); Spins in Organic Materials; Ion Interactions with Nano Scale Materials; Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics; Plasmonics and Nanophotonics (jointly with HL and O); High-k and Low-k Dielectrics (jointly with DF); Organic Thin Films; Nanoengineered Thin Films; Layer Deposition Processes; Layer Properties: Electrical, Optical, and Mechanical Properties; Thin Film Characterisation: Structure Analysis and Composition; Application of Thin Films

DS 42.119: Poster

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 15:00–17:30, P1

Simulation of Plasmonic Microcavities — •Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich, Jan Pomplun, and Frank Schmidt — Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Plasmon-based waveguiding structures allow for transport and storage of light at subwavelength scales. Fast and accurate 3D Maxwell solvers are needed for designing structural parameters of, e.g., hybrid plasmonic waveguides. Due to the multi-scale nature of the corresponding field distributions, accurate computation of the properties of such devices can be numerically challenging.

We have developed finite-element method (FEM) based solvers for the Maxwell eigenvalue and scattering problems. The method is based on higher order vectorial elements, adaptive unstructured grids, and on a rigorous treatment of transparent boundaries. The method has been applied to plasmonic devices like plasmonic antennas, gratings and waveguides [1-5]. Here we present 3D simulations of light propagation in plasmonic waveguides and plasmon laser cavities. We investigate the accuracy of the simulations in a convergence analysis of the numerical results.

[1] J. Hoffmann et al., Proc. SPIE Vol. 7390, 73900J (2009). [2] D. Lockau et al., J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11, 114013 (2009). [3] H. W. Lee et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 111102 (2008). [4] S. Burger et al., Proc. SPIE Vol. 7604, 76040F (2010). [5] J. K. Gansel, et al., Opt. Express 18, 1059 (2010).