Compact plasmonic variable optical attenuator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15546-15552

  Leosson, Kristjan ^a   Rosenzveig, Tiberiu ^a   Hermannsson, Petur Gordon ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION;

ATTENUATION RANGE; DRIVING VOLTAGES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; THERMO-OPTIC VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATOR; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

GLASS; METAL; NANOWIRE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; METALS; NANOWIRES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; POLYMERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 54749139282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015546     Document Type: Article

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