Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 4, 052 (2009)

Regular Articles

Microplasma Array Serving as Photonic Crystals and Plasmon Chains
Osamu SAKAI, Teruki NAITO and Kunihide TACHIBANA
Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
(Received 9 September 2008 / Accepted 7 March 2009 / Published 5 November 2009)

Abstract

An array of microplasmas with sizes ranging from a millimeter to a micrometer, has potential for novel and promising electromagnetic-wave media, especially when the wave frequency is below the electron plasma frequency. Photonic crystals or band-gap materials composed of microplasmas have unique properties arising from their loss term, and they can become band-pass filters instead of the band-stop filters usually observed in photonic crystals of dielectrics. Such behavior is well understood using the dispersion relation in a three-dimensional space of frequency and complex wavenumber with real and imaginary parts. Another functional array is a simple one-dimensional (1D) array; it can conduct microwaves for a wide frequency range below the electron plasma frequency. The propagating modes are similar to the coupling of localized surface plasmon polaritons observed along a metallic nanoparticle chain in the photon range; however a 1D microplasma array features differ from those of a metallic sphere array, leading to a dynamic wide-band waveguide.

Keywords

microplasma, electromagnetic waves, photonic crystal, surface wave, localized surface plasmon polariton

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.4.052

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Osamu SAKAI, Teruki NAITO and Kunihide TACHIBANA, Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 052 (2009).