Plasmonic optical waveguides in superconductive traveling-wave photodetectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7099, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ghamsari, Behnood G ^a   Majedi, A Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Plasmonic optical waveguides; Superconducting devices; Superconductive photodetectors; Superconductive traveling wave photodetectors; THz photonics; Traveling wave optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONICS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVEGUIDES;

FIELD ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED DEVICES; OPTICAL FIELDS; OPTICAL POWERS; OPTICAL-; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; PLASMONIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROMISING TECHNIQUE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVE PHOTODETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVE TRAVELING-WAVE PHOTODETECTORS; THZ PHOTONICS; TRAVELING-WAVE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TRAVELING-WAVE PHOTODETECTORS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 52249097811     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.806201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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