Ultra-compact directional couplers and Mach-Zehnder interferometers employing surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Communications

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 690-695

  Han, Zhanghua ^a,b   Liu, Liu ^a,b,c   Forsberg, Erik ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mach Zehnder interferometer; Optical directional coupler; Surface plasmon polariton

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLER; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 31644435175     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.09.034     Document Type: Article

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