Design and fabrication of multilayer metal-clad dielectric surface plasmon waveguide polarizers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kumar, Dharmendra ^a   Sharma, V K ^a   Tripathi, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Polarizer; Superstrate layer; Symmetric plasmon wave

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FILMS; FABRICATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL CLADDING; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; THIN FILMS;

BUFFER LAYER; POLARIZER; SUPERSTRATE LAYER; SYMMETRIC PLASMON WAVE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748595842     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2203365     Document Type: Article

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