Figures of merit for 2D surface plasmon waveguides and application to metal stripes

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12174-12182

  Buckley, Robin ^a   Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FIGURES OF MERIT; METAL STRIPES; MODE CONFINEMENT; SYMMETRIC MODE PROPAGATING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34648837154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012174     Document Type: Article

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