An ultra-short contra-directional coupler utilizing surface plasmon-polaritons at optical frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7279-7290

  Wang, Yan ^a   Islam, Rubaiyat ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FINITE COUPLER WIDTH; NANO-TRANSMISSION LINES; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITONS (SPPS);

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 33746901109     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007279     Document Type: Article

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