1.Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Institute of Optical Information, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 2.State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract:Surface magnetoplasmons (SMPs) is a kind of near-field electromagnetic wave, which propagates at the interface of dielectricand magneto-optical material under the action of biased magnetic field. Because SMPs have excellent anti-interference and backscattering-immune properties, it has attracted wide attention of researchers in recent years, but there are still many problems in the design of waveguide structures. When electromagnetic waves propagate in magneto-optical materials, the faraday rotation effect makes the bias magnetic field and the magnetic field vector (or electrical displacement vector) not in the same direction, so the anti-angle elements of the second-order matrix of magnetic permeability (or dielectric constant) are asymmetric. This asymmetrymakes electromagnetic waves non-reciprocal when propagating in specific directions in magneto-optical materials, and can even achieve one-way propagation in a certain frequency range. In this paper, a structure of three-layerplanar waveguide with silver, silicon, and magneto-optical material is studied. SMPs propagate at the interface between silicon and magneto-optical materials. This work numerically calculates the dispersion relation of the waveguide and the band gap of the magneto-optical material. It is found that both the fundamental mode and the higher-order mode of SMPs have one-way propagation characteristics in forward or backward directionwithin a specific frequency range. The dispersion relation of the planar waveguides with gyromagnetic material andgyroelectricmaterial are calculated respectively. As a result, the thickness of silicon layer and the external magnetic field have significant influence on bulk mode and the one-way propagation region of SMPs. By increasing the thickness of the silicon layer or increasing the intensity of the magnetic field, the higher-order mode can appear at the lower frequency region, thus compressing the one-way propagation region or even losing the one-way propagation mode. The one-way propagation bandwidth of planar waveguideswith gyromagnetic material YIG and gyroelectric material InSbare calculated. Bycalculating the dispersion relation of the waveguide SMPs and the band gap of the magneto-optical material for each group of magnetic field and the thickness of Si, the colormap of YIG waveguideand InSbwaveguide under 400–2000Oe magnetic field and 0.1–???????1 T magnetic field are obtained. As a result, the one-way mode of YIG waveguide appears in GHz band, and the maximum bandwidth for both forward and backward one-way propagation is 2.45 GHz. While, the one-way mode of InSbwaveguide appears in THz band, the maximum one-way propagation bandwidth in forward and backward directions are 3.9 THz and 3.12 THz. The research results in this paper are of great significance for the design and fabrication of non-reciprocal waveguides with one-waypropagation characteristics. Keywords:one-way propagtion/ magneto-optical material/ surface magnetoplasmons/ nonreciprocity
在旋磁或旋电材料中, 由于法拉第旋光效应使偏置磁场和磁场矢量(或电位移矢量)不在同一方向上, 因此2阶矩阵的反对角线元素都是不对称的. 正是这种不对称性使得电磁波在磁光材料中沿特定方向传播时具有非互易性, 甚至在一定频率范围内能够实现单向传播. 将磁流线源放置在硅和磁光材料的界面上0点处激发SMPs, 波导中Si的厚度为9.6 μm, 外加磁场强度为0.3 T时, 调整电磁波频率, 发现在9.1—10.4 THz频率区间内, 只有向左或向右稳定单向传播的SMPs模式, 如图2所示, 激励了向右单向传播的SMPs, 仿真得到的正向传播15 μm处与反向传播15 μm处的消光比达到22.6 dB. 我们称激发这种模式的电磁波频率区间即为单向传播区域. 图 2 磁流线源激励的单向传播模式, 图中显示电场振幅沿传播方向的演化. (Si厚度为9.6 μm, 磁光材料为8 μm厚的InSb, 外加磁场强度为0.3 T, 电磁波频率为1.56 THz) Figure2. The one-way propagation mode of the magnetic current source excitation, the figure shows the evolution of the electric field amplitude along the propagation direction. (The thickness of the Si and magneto-optical materials InSb are 0.6 μm and 8 μm, the applied magnetic field strength is 0.3 T, and the electromagnetic frequency is 1.56 THz.)