Thermally activated variable attenuation of long-range surface plasmon-polariton waves

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4391-4402

  Gagnon, Guy ^a,b   Lahoud, Nancy ^a   Mattiussi, Greg A ^a,c   Berini, Pierre ^a,d  

^a Spectalis Corporation   (Canada)

^b Verifeye Technologies   (Canada)

^c Epocal Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuator; Long range; Surface plasmon polariton; Variable

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

FREE-SPACE OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVES; THERMAL MODELING;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 33846991384     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.883683     Document Type: Article

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