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Nanofocusing of terahertz wave in a tapered hyperbolic metal waveguide
Author(s) -
Hua Gao,
Qing Cao,
Minning Zhu,
Da Teng,
Siyi Shen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.22.032071
Subject(s) - terahertz radiation , waveguide , optics , materials science , refractive index , physics
An tapered hyperbolic metal waveguide is suggested for the nanofocusing of terahertz waves. We numerically show that, at the frequency of 1 THz, the focal spot can be as small as only 5 nm, which is smaller than that of a plate waveguide by 2 orders of magnitude. Correspondingly, the longitudinal component of the energy flow density is stronger than that of a plate waveguide by 3 orders of magnitude for the same input. It is shown that these significant improvements come from the small imaginary part of the effective index of the hyperbolic metal waveguide.

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