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Dispersion and transitions of dipolar plasmon modes in graded plasmonic waveguides

J. J. Xiao, K. Yakubo, K. W. Yu

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0610453

Abstract

Coupled plasmon modes are studied in graded plasmonic waveguides, which are periodic chains of metallic nanoparticles embedded in a host with gradually varying refractive indices. We identify three types of localized modes called "light", "heavy", and "light-heavy" plasmonic gradons outside the passband, according to various degrees of localization. We also demonstrate new transitions among extended and localized modes when the interparticle separation d is smaller than a critical dc, whereas the three types of localized modes occur for d>dc, with no extended modes. The transitions can be explained with phase diagrams constructed for the lossless metallic systems.

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