Liu Wei; Sukhorukov Andrey; Miroshnichenko Ae; Poulton Christopher; Xu Zy; Neshev Dn; Kivshar Y
(Amer Inst Physics, 2010)
We study a plasmonic coupler involving backward (TM01) and forward (HE11) modes of dielectric waveguides embedded into an infinite metallic background. The simultaneously achievable contradirectional energy flows and ...