Nanoconcentration of terahertz radiation in plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18576-18589

  Rusina, Anastasia ^a   Durach, Maxim ^a   Nelson, Keith A ^b   Stockman, Mark I ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC ENGINES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEGUIDES;

ADIABATIC COMPRESSION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL/NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 56149094953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018576     Document Type: Article

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