Optical bistability in metal gap waveguide nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8421-8426

  Shen, Yun ^a   Wang, Guo Ping ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL TRANSISTOR; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH-DENSITY INTEGRATION; METAL DIELECTRICS; METAL GAP WAVEGUIDE; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 45449108095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008421     Document Type: Article

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