Theoretical investigation of compact couplers between dielectric slab waveguides and two-dimensional metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1211-1221

  Veronis, Georgios ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

DIELECTRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDES; FABRY-PEROT STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZED MULTISECTION TAPERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33846885923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001211     Document Type: Article

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