ATR excitation of two-dimensional optical waves in planar and tapered negative dielectric waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6050, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Miyoshi, Noriyuki ^a   Takahara, Junichi ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Kusunoki, Fuminori ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adiabatic conversion; Attenuated total reflection method; Negative dielectric; Surface plasmon polariton; Two dimensional optical wave

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ADIABATIC CONVERSION; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION METHOD; NEGATIVE DIELECTRIC; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON; TWO-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL WAVE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33645049870     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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