Gain assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on planar metallic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4072-4079

  Nezhad, Maziar P ^a   Tetz, Kevin ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SURFACE WAVES;

GAIN ASSISTED PROPAGATION; PLANAR METALLIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 4644297203     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004072     Document Type: Article

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