Slow guided surface plasmons at telecom frequencies

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 573-576

  Sandtke, M ^a   Kuipers, L ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMIT OF LIGHT; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; SLOW LIGHT;

PLASMONS;

EID: 34848890990     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.174     Document Type: Article

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