Modes of subwavelength plasmonic slot waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2511-2521

  Veronis, Georgios ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical waveguides; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVELENGTH;

CUTOFF WAVELENGTH; PLASMONIC SLOT WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC STRIP WAVEGUIDE; SUBWAVELENGTH;

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34548609947     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.903544     Document Type: Article

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