Long-range spoof surface plasmons on the doubly corrugated metal surfaces

•We study spoof surface plasmon modes on the doubly-corrugated metal surfaces.•Besides, the results identify the long-range spoof surface mode (LRSSP) on this structure for the first time.•Good agreements between theory and numerical simulation are realized.

In this paper, symmetric spoof surface plasmon (SSP) mode on the doubly corrugated metal surfaces is indentified as long-range spoof surface plasmon (LRSSP) because of its extreme low propagation loss and symmetric dominant field profile so as short-range SSP (SRSSP) for anti-symmetric mode. Based on theoretical calculation and numerical simulation of finite integration method, symmetric and anti-symmetric SSP modes with various gap sizes between these two identical corrugated metal surfaces are investigated in terahertz (THz) regime and good agreement is realized. Besides, the low loss superiority of LRSSP diminishes along with the increased gap size. This work opens up new avenues to utilize this long-range surface mode in far-infrared, THz or lower frequency band and can find many potential applications such as low-loss waveguide, filters and novel electronic sources.