Controlling surface plasmon polaritons in transformed coordinates

Abstract

Transformational optics allows for a markedly enhanced control of the electromagnetic wave trajectories within metamaterials, with interesting applications ranging from perfect lenses to invisibility cloaks, carpets, concentrators and rotators. Here we present a review of curved anisotropic heterogeneous meta-surfaces designed using the tool of transformational plasmonics, in order to achieve a similar control for surface plasmon polaritons in cylindrical and conical carpets (for the latter we provide some analytical insight), as well as cylindrical cloaks, concentrators and rotators of a non-convex cross-section. Finally, we provide an asymptotic form of the geometric potential for surface plasmon polaritons on such surfaces in the limit of a small curvature.

Keywords:

• transformational optics
• surface plasmon polariton
• carpet
• cloak
• concentrator
• rotator

Acknowledgements

M.K. and G.D. are thankful for the Ph.D. scholarship from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and the University of Aix-Marseille III.