“…Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which originate from the interaction of incident photons and free electrons on the metal surface, propagate along with the metal-dielectric interface and have the potential to overcome the light diffraction limit, localization of light in subwavelength, and high level of integration capability [1][2][3]. SPPs have applications in optical devices such as switches [4,5], sensors [6][7][8][9], integrated photonic devices [10], demultiplexers [11], and filters [12,13]. One of the greatly pledging waveguide structures is the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide, which has excesses such as low bending loss, simple structure, long propagation distance, deep sub-wavelength confinements, and easy integration [14][15][16][17][18].…”