Experimental demonstration of fiber-accessible metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides for planar energy guiding and sensing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Maier, Stefan A ^a,b   Friedman, Michelle D ^a   Barclay, Paul E ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GOLD; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLASMON WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC DEVICES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 17044424628     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1862340     Document Type: Article

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