Vertical coupling between gap plasmon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12677-12687

  Hoffman, Galen B ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PLASMONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE-SPACE WAVELENGTHS; INTERFERENCE METHODS; MODE MATCHING METHOD; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; VERTICAL COUPLING;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METAL;

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

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

EID: 50049123605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012677     Document Type: Article

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