Waveguide-ring resonator-based photonic components utilizing channel plasmon polaritons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6896, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Volkov, Valentyn S ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Optical circuits; Scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM); Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHONONS; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PIGMENTS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONATORS; SOLIDS; TECHNOLOGY; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

(HI-BI) WAVEGUIDE; ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXER (ADM); CHANNEL PLASMON-POLARITONS (CPP); LOW PROPAGATION LOSSES; METAL SURFACES; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (SNOM); PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; RING RESONATORS; RING RESONATORS (RR); STRONG CONFINEMENT; SUB WAVELENGTH; V-GROOVES; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVITY;

REUSABILITY;

EID: 42149107957     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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