Curved long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2365-2371

  Berini, Pierre ^a,b   Lu, Junjie ^b  

^a Spectalis Corporation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS; VECTORS;

PLASMON-POLARITON MODE; PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33645057210     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002365     Document Type: Article

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