Bend- and splitting loss of dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13585-13592

  Holmgaard, Tobias ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a,b   Markey, Laurent ^c   Dereux, Alain ^c   Krasavin, Alexey V ^d   Zayats, Anatoly V ^d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHONONS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDES;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; DIELECTRIC LOADED; DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; NEAR-FIELD CHARACTERIZATIONS; PLASMONIC CIRCUITRIES; SURFACE POLARITONS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; 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; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 51149123251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013585     Document Type: Article

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