Surface plasmon resonance based wavelength selector: Design considerations

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 263-267

  Kajenski, Peter J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a International Society for Optics and Photonics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulators; Surface plasmon resonance; Thin film optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142108023     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601168     Document Type: Article

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