We present a detailed analysis and recipe for designing a channel Bragg-plasmon coupled waveguide where the
intermodal coupling between a bandgap-guided mode and surface plasmon mode substantially modifies the phase-velocity
dispersion slope of supermodes. This leads to appreciably large group-velocity-dispersion with peak value of ≈4.33x104 ps/km-nm close to the optical communication band as well as interaction bandwidth of about 765 pm for 1 cm
long waveguide. We also found that bandgap guided Bragg modes exhibit stronger dispersive features than the plasmon
modes around ~ 1.50 μm which is exactly opposite to what is usually observed in visible region. The impact of
waveguide parameters such as channel width etc. on mode-coupling mechanism is also studied with significant
emphasis on the propagation loss suffered by the supermodes of the structure.
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