Bragg gratings based on long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides: Comparison of theory and experiment

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1480-1491

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

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corporation   (Canada)

^c Epocal Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg; Grating; Plasmon; Polariton

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GOLD; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHYSICAL OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

BRAGG WAVELENGTHS; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 29244469444     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.858466     Document Type: Article

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