Selective optical-optical switching for planar plasmonic waveguides and nodes

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8198-8212

  Quong, Michael C ^a   Elezzabi, Abdulhakem Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; OPTICAL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 44649150182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008198     Document Type: Article

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