Editors' Picks Collection: Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Since 1997, Optics Express has been a respected journal emphasizing scientific and technological innovations in optics and photonics. To honor its 20th anniversary year, the editors of Optics Express selected articles from a variety of topic areas that have been key to the Journal's success.
Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in these areas.
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Nanofocusing in laterally tapered plasmonic waveguides
Ewold Verhagen, Albert Polman, and L. (Kobus) Kuipers
Opt. Express 16(1) 45-57 (2008)
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The Ag dielectric function in plasmonic metamaterials
Vladimir P. Drachev, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Wenshan Cai, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Opt. Express 16(2) 1186-1195 (2008)
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Compensation of loss in propagating surface plasmon polariton by gain in adjacent dielectric medium
M. A. Noginov, V. A. Podolskiy, G. Zhu, M. Mayy, M. Bahoura, J. A. Adegoke, B. A. Ritzo, and K. Reynolds
Opt. Express 16(2) 1385-1392 (2008)
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Engineering the optical response of plasmonic nanoantennas
Holger Fischer and Olivier J. F. Martin
Opt. Express 16(12) 9144-9154 (2008)
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Towards the lasing spaser: controlling metamaterial optical response with semiconductor quantum dots
E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, P. Kuo, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
Opt. Express 17(10) 8548-8551 (2009)
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A silicon-based hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a metal cap for a nano-scale light confinement
Daoxin Dai and Sailing He
Opt. Express 17(19) 16646-16653 (2009)
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The transmission characteristics of surface plasmon polaritons in ring resonator
Tong-Biao Wang, Xie-Wen Wen, Cheng-Ping Yin, and He-Zhou Wang
Opt. Express 17(26) 24096-24101 (2009)
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Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells
Vivian E. Ferry, Marc A. Verschuuren, Hongbo B. T. Li, Ewold Verhagen, Robert J. Walters, Ruud E. I. Schropp, Harry A. Atwater, and Albert Polman
Opt. Express 18(S2) A237-A245 (2010)
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Plasmon-induced transparency with detuned ultracompact Fabry-Perot resonators in integrated plasmonic devices
Zhanghua Han and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Opt. Express 19(4) 3251-3257 (2011)
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Nanoplasmonics: past, present, and glimpse into future
Mark I. Stockman
Opt. Express 19(22) 22029-22106 (2011)
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A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial
Rasoul Alaee, Mohamed Farhat, Carsten Rockstuhl, and Falk Lederer
Opt. Express 20(27) 28017-28024 (2012)