Exciting the optical response of nanowire metamaterial films on the tip of optical fibres

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2013
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Leite,IT
Hierro Rodriguez,A
Silva,AO
Teixeira,JM
Sousa,CT
Fernandez Garcia,MP
Araujo,JP
Pedro Jorge
Ariel Guerreiro
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This Letter reports on the assembly on the tip of an optical fibre of a metamaterial film fabricated by a self-assembly bottom-up method, composed of silver nanowires embedded in an alumina matrix. By illuminating the film through the fibre in a reflection configuration, we observe experimentally the optical response of the metamaterial in agreement with theoretical predictions and interpreted as the excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons in the cylindrical surface of the nanowires. These results pave the way for low-cost optical fibre devices that incorporate metamaterial films. (c) 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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