Nanodot coupler with a surface plasmon polariton condenser for optical far/near-field conversion

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Nomura, Wataru ^a   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^a,b   Yatsui, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; FABRICATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANODOT COUPLER; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; NEAR-FIELD CONVERSION;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 20844458746     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1920419     Document Type: Article

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