Tamm plasmon-polaritons: Possible electromagnetic states at the interface of a metal and a dielectric Bragg mirror

Kaliteevski, M.; Iorsh, I.; Brand, S.; Abram, R.A.; Chamberlain, J.M.; Kavokin, A.V.; Shelykh, I.A.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.76.165415

Tamm plasmon-polaritons: Possible electromagnetic states at the interface of a metal and a dielectric Bragg mirror

Kaliteevski, M.; Iorsh, I.; Brand, S.; Abram, R.A.; Chamberlain, J.M.; Kavokin, A.V.; Shelykh, I.A.

Authors

M. Kaliteevski

I. Iorsh

S. Brand

R.A. Abram

J.M. Chamberlain

A.V. Kavokin

I.A. Shelykh

Abstract

Conventional surface plasmons have a wave vector exceeding that of light in vacuum, and therefore cannot be directly excited by light that is simply incident on the surface. However, we propose that a plasmon-polariton state can be formed at the boundary between a metal and a dielectric Bragg mirror that can have a zero in-plane wave vector and therefore can be produced by direct optical excitation. In analogy with the electronic states at a crystal surface proposed by Tamm, we call these excitations Tamm plasmons, and predict that they may exist in both the TE and TM polarizations and are characterized by parabolic dispersion relations.

Citation

Kaliteevski, M., Iorsh, I., Brand, S., Abram, R., Chamberlain, J., Kavokin, A., & Shelykh, I. (2007). Tamm plasmon-polaritons: Possible electromagnetic states at the interface of a metal and a dielectric Bragg mirror. Physical review B, 76(16), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.76.165415

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2007
Deposit Date	Mar 3, 2011
Publicly Available Date	Mar 15, 2011
Journal	Physical Review B
Print ISSN	1098-0121
Electronic ISSN	1550-235X
Publisher	American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	76
Issue	16
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.76.165415
Keywords	Surface, Microcavities.