Characteristics of plasmonic waveguides and nonlinear metallic particles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6324, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fukui, Masuo ^a   Okamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Ogawa, Toshiaki ^a   Haraguchi, Masanobu ^a   Pile, David F P ^b   Gramotnev, Dmitri K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local plasmons; Nano optical switch; Plasmonic waveguide; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LOCAL PLASMONS; NANOOPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDE; PLASMONICS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33751029567     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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