Plasmon excitation by the Gaussian-like core mode of a photonic crystal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8419-8424

  Skorobogatiy, Maksim ^a   Kabashin, Andrey ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC) WAVEGUIDE; PLASMON EXCITATION; RESONANT EXCITATION;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 33748325808     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008419     Document Type: Article

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