Propagation properties of a surface plasmonic waveguide with double elliptical air cores

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10710-10720

  Xue, Wenrui ^a   Guo, Ya Nan ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Zhang, Wenmei ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; METAL WORKING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILVER; WAVEGUIDES;

DEVICE INTEGRATION; ENERGY FLUX DENSITY; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHODS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 47249107352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010710     Document Type: Article

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