Propagation of surface plasmon polariton in nanometre-sized metal-clad optical waveguides

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 284-287

  Onuki, T ^a   Watanabe, Y ^b   Nishio, K ^b   Tsuchiya, T ^b   Tani, T ^c   Tokizaki, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anodic oxidation; Metal clad; Nano fabrication; Nano photonics; Optical circuits; Scanning near field optical microscope; Surface plasmon; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FABRICATION; MICROSCOPES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHONONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ANODIC OXIDATION METHOD; LOCAL ANODIC OXIDATION; METAL-CLAD; NANO FABRICATION; NANO-PHOTONICS; NANOMETRES; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; PLASMON-POLARITONS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; SURFACE-PLASMON;

PHOTONS;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; LIGHT; OPTICS; OXIDATION; POLARITON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0038001507     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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