Novel surface plasmon waveguide for high integration

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6645-6650

  Liu, Liu ^a,b   Han, Zhanghua ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); FABRICATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SILICA; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS;

HIGHLY INTEGRATED PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS; METALLIC THIN FILMS; POLYMER UPPER CLADDING; SILICA SUBSTRATES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 24144487423     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006645     Document Type: Review

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