Demonstration of Bragg gratings based on long-ranging surface plasmon polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4674-4682

  Jetté Charbonneau, Stéphanie ^a   Charbonneau, Robert ^a   Lahoud, Nancy ^a   Mattiussi, Greg ^a,b   Berini, Pierre ^a,c  

^a Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

^b Epocal Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FABRICATION; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVELENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 22744445741     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004674     Document Type: Article

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