Plasmonic Fibers—Metal-Dielectric Hybrid Schemes of Optic Fibers
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 2059
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573, Ibaraki, Japan
Interests: terahertz chemistry; terahertz spectroscopy; terahertz sources and detectors; optical and photonic devices
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Dear Colleagues,
According to the bases of optic, photonic-crystal and micro-structured fibers, this Special Issue specifies their metal–dielectric hybrid schemes of steering fiber-guided waves along metal-thin films, metal wires, and periodic metal structures. The excitation of metal surface plasmonic (SP) waves with fiber-waveguide modes has been developed and denoted as one technique of integrated optics. Plasmonic fibers successfully realize near-field probes without a diffraction limit, planar meta-lenses at fiber facets, surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, surface-plasmonic-resonance (SPR)-based refractive index sensing, fiber-coupled plasmonic circuits on chips, plasmonic fiber-grating immunosensors, and plasmonic fiber-optic absorbance biosensors. Solid- and hollow-core fiber structures, presented with D-shaped, U-bent-shaped, and tapered schemes, can combine fiber waveguide modes and thin metal films to efficiently generate SP waves. Subwavelength-scaled dielectric wires are also waveguide media considered for the assembly or bundling of thin metal films for plasmonic fibers. This Special Issue invites researchers, who are working on fiber-based SP waves, SPR waves, and the corresponding complex wave guidance, to further present their studies or technical reviews involving sensing–imaging applications, numeric calculations of designs, and modulation methods.
Dr. Borwen You
Prof. Dr. Ja-Yu Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Surface plasmon polariton;
- Surface plasmon resonance;
- Subwavelength confinement;
- Plasmonic wave;
- Near-field probe;
- Plasmonic fiber-optic sensor;
- Plasmonic fiber tip;
- Plasmonic optical fiber grating;
- Plasmonic sensor;
- Plasmonic waveguide
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