Hybrid-effect transmission enhancement induced by oblique illumination in nano-ridge waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11741-11749

  Fang, Jen Yu ^a   Tien, Chung Hao ^a   Shieh, Han Ping D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

HYBRID-EFFECT TRANSMISSION; NANO-RIDGE WAVEGUIDE; PLASMON WAVES; TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34548386936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011741     Document Type: Article

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