Novel efficient design of Y-splitter for surface plasmon polariton applications

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14369-14379

  Passinger, Sven ^a   Seidel, Andreas ^a   Ohrt, Christoph ^a   Reinhardt, Carsten ^a   Stepanov, Andrey ^a   Kiyan, Roman ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDES; EFFICIENT DESIGNS; FABRICATION PROCESS; LIMITED RESOLUTION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; Y SPLITTER;

PLASMONS;

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

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

EID: 51849138412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014369     Document Type: Article

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