Asymmetric transmission of light in hybrid waveguide-integrated plasmonic crystals on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Opt Lett. 2019 Nov 1;44(21):5378-5381. doi: 10.1364/OL.44.005378.

Abstract

We demonstrate asymmetric transmission of light in hybrid waveguide-integrated plasmonic crystals where triangular silver islands create a regular array of nanogaps which couple to an underlying silicon-on-insulator optical waveguide. Up to 60% difference is observed between light transmission in the forward and backward directions. This asymmetric transmission of light is not caused by an external magnetic field or nonlinearity, but solely a consequence of the structure geometry.