Directional surface plasmon polaritons excited by an atom near the left-handed materials slab

Jing Ping Xu; Ya Ping Yang; Shi Yao ZHU

doi:10.1080/09500340.2010.497587

Directional surface plasmon polaritons excited by an atom near the left-handed materials slab

Jing Ping Xu, Ya Ping Yang, Shi Yao ZHU^*

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Department of Physics

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Abstract

Directional surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) can be realized by the spontaneous emission of an atom via a one-dimensional slab of left-handed material (LHM). By adjusting the location of the atom and the thickness of the slab, only the TE-polarized SPP modes can exist, which are distributed near the surface and propagate mainly in the surface and along the direction norm to the atomic dipole moment. Consequently, the controllable single photon with definite polarization and narrow propagation directions can be generated by means of a LHM slab with suitable parameters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1473-1478
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Modern Optics
Volume	57
Issue number	14-15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2010.497587
Publication status	Published - 10 Aug 2010

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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left-handed materials
spontaneous decay
surface plasmon polaritons

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