Construction of refractive-index profiles of planar waveguides with additional information obtained from surface plasmon resonance

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3174-3178

  Zhu, Haidong ^a   Cao, Zhuangqi ^a   Shen, Qishun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METALLIC FILMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THIN FILMS;

INVERSE ANALYTICAL TRANSFER MATRIX (IATM); PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; SURFACE INDEX;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 20544444505     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003174     Document Type: Article

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