Alù, AndreaEngheta, Nader2023-05-222023-05-222008-07-012008-08-28https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/33634We propose a mechanism for optical energy squeezing and anomalous light transmission through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic ultranarrow channels and bends connecting two larger plasmonic metal-insulator-metal waveguides. It is shown how a proper design of subwavelength optical channels at cutoff, patterned by plasmonic implants and connecting larger plasmonic waveguides, may allow enhanced resonant transmission inspired by the anomalous properties of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials. The resonant transmission is shown to be only weakly dependent on the channel length and its specific geometry, such as possible presence of abruptions and bends.light transmissionmetamaterialsMIM structuresoptical squeezingoptical waveguidesplasmonsArticle