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27 February 2021 Glide symmetry for mode control and significant suppression of coupling in dual-strip SSPP transmission lines
Xiao Tian Yan, Wenxuan Tang, Jun Feng Liu, Meng Wang, Xin Xin Gao, Tie Jun Cui
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Abstract

Glide symmetry, which is one kind of higher symmetry, is introduced in a special type of plasmonic metamaterial, the transmission lines (TLs) of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs), in order to control the dispersion characteristics and modal fields of the SSPPs. We show that the glide-symmetric TL presents merged pass bands and mode degeneracy, which lead to broad working bandwidth and extremely low coupling between neighboring TLs. Dual-conductor SSPP TLs with and without glide symmetry are arranged in parallel as two channels with very deep subwavelength separation (e.g., λ0  /  100 at 5 GHz) for the application of integrated circuits and systems. Mutual coupling between the hybrid channels is analyzed using coupled mode theory and characterized in terms of scattering parameters and near-field distributions. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the hybrid TL array obtains significantly more suppressed crosstalk than the uniform array of two nonglide symmetric TLs. Hence, it is concluded that the glide symmetry can be adopted to flexibly design the propagation of SSPPs and benefit the development of highly compact plasmonic circuits.

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Xiao Tian Yan, Wenxuan Tang, Jun Feng Liu, Meng Wang, Xin Xin Gao, and Tie Jun Cui "Glide symmetry for mode control and significant suppression of coupling in dual-strip SSPP transmission lines," Advanced Photonics 3(2), 026001 (27 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.3.2.026001
Received: 21 October 2020; Accepted: 11 January 2021; Published: 27 February 2021
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KEYWORDS
Thallium

Dispersion

Near field

Photonics

Plasmonics

Radio propagation

Scattering

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