Compact bragg gratings for long-range surface plasmon polaritons

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 912-918

  Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Nikolajsen, Thomas ^c   Leosson, Kristjan ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Integrated optics devices; Multiple scattering; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRIP METAL;

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THICKNESS MODULATION; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33947692753     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862470     Document Type: Article

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