Modeling of complementary (Void) plasmon waveguiding

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2547-2562

  Feigenbaum, Eyal ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical interconnections; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical propagation; Optical propagation in absorbing media; Optical propagation in dispersive media; Optical propagation in plasma media; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguide theory; Plasmons

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPLEMENTARY WAVEGUIDE; FULL-VECTORIAL PROPAGATION SCHEME; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE COMPONENT; PLASMONIC CIRCUIT ELEMENT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34548653507     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.903558     Document Type: Article

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