Compact Z-add-drop wavelength filters for long-range surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4237-4243

  Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Søndergaard, Thomas ^b   Nikolajsen, Thomas ^c   Leosson, Kristjan ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Micro Managed Photons A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MODULATION; POLYMERS; SCATTERING;

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 21244486692     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004237     Document Type: Article

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