Coupled metal gap waveguides as plasmonic wavelength sorters

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7680-7685

  Kang, Zhiwen ^a   Wang, Guo Ping ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PLASMONS; WAVELENGTH;

METAL GAP WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC WAVELENGTH SORTERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL;

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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 44649189833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007680     Document Type: Article

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