Coupling of surface plasmon waves in metal/dielectric gap waveguides and single interface waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2883-2887

  Sun, Zhijun ^a   Zeng, Danyan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL BAND GAPS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVELENGTH;

END-FIRE COUPLING; GAP WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE INTERFACE WAVEGUIDE;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 37549052137     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002883     Document Type: Article

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