Resonant-tunnelling-assisted crossing for subwavelength plasmonic slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14997-15005

  Xiao, Sanshui ^a   Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; INTEGRATION CIRCUITS; MATERIAL LOSS; NANOPLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SYMMETRY CONSIDERATION; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 51849140950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014997     Document Type: Article

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