Anna Demming, Mark Brongersma and Dai Sik Kim
Control and confinement are mounting challenges as photonic technology pushes to achieve ever smaller device sizes. The highly localized nature of light-matter interactions and the effective coupling of light to metallic nanostructures are prized features of plasmonics for applications in down-sized devices from data processing and communication, to sensing and energy harvesting. The concept of the surface plasmon—a collective oscillation of the 2D electron 'plasma'—first came into use about half a century ago during the study of the electron energy loss spectroscopy in metal films [1–4]. However, the boom in nanotechnology over the past 30 years has provided both the tools and the impetus to push our understanding and control of plasmonic systems forward. This issue is specifically dedicated to the role of plasmonics research in furthering developments in photonics and optoelectronics. Optical fibres provide the potential for increasingly high-speed and power-efficient c...
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Control and confinement are mounting challenges as photonic technology pushes to achieve ever smaller device sizes. The highly localized nature of light-matter interactions and the effective coupling of light to metallic nanostructures are prized features of plasmonics for applications in down-sized devices from data processing and communication, to sensing and energy harvesting. The concept of the surface plasmon—a collective oscillation of the 2D electron 'plasma'—first came into use about half a century ago during the study of the electron energy loss spectroscopy in metal films [1–4]. However, the boom in nanotechnology over the past 30 years has provided both the tools and the impetus to push our understanding and control of plasmonic systems forward. This issue is specifically dedicated to the role of plasmonics research in furthering developments in photonics and optoelectronics. Optical fibres provide the potential for increasingly high-speed and power-efficient c...
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