Movable Fiber-Integrated Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide on Metal Film

A waveguide structure consisting of a tapered nanofiber on a metal film is proposed and analyzed to support highly localized hybrid plasmonic modes. The hybrid plasmonic mode can be efficiently excited through the in-line tapered fiber based on adiabatic conversion and collected by the same fiber, which is very convenient in experimentation. Due to the ultrasmall mode area of plasmonic mode, the local electromagnetic field is greatly enhanced in this movable waveguide, which has the potential for enhanced coherence light emitter interactions, such as waveguide quantum electrodynamics, single emitter spectrum, and nonlinear optics.Engineering, Electrical & ElectronicOpticsPhysics, AppliedSCI(E)EI0ARTICLE6434-4362