Novel complex modes in asymmetrical nanoscale plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17842-17847

  Berkovitch, Nikolai ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a   Lipson, Stephen G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEX MODES; DISCRETE COMPLEXES; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; INDEX OF REFRACTION; NANO SCALE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 55349084769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017842     Document Type: Article

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