Analytic Modeling of Trench Waveguides for Channel Plasmon-Polariton Using Full-Hybrid Trial-Field Functions

A full-hybrid trial-field modeling, which was proposed earlier by the authors for plasmonic structures of rectangular cross-section, has been applied to trench waveguides for channel plasmon polariton. Most of the computed results of complex propagation constant agree well with those obtained by method of lines and effective index method, though the latter two results themselves show some discrepancy. The particular aspect in which there is varying degree of disagreement among the results obtained in the above three methods is the imaginary part of the effective index seen by the plasmon-polariton.