Triangular metal wedges for subwavelength plasmon-polariton guiding at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5252-5260

  Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a   Volkov, Valentyn S ^b,e   Nielsen, Rasmus B ^a   Moreno, Esteban ^c   Rodrigo, Sergio G ^d   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL IMAGING; PLASMON POLARITON GUIDING;

PLASMONS;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 42149083301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005252     Document Type: Article

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