Efficiently squeezing near infrared light into a 21nm-by-24nm nanospot

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 20142-20148

  Yang, Ruoxi ^a   Abushagur, Mustafa A G ^a   Lu, Zhaolin ^a  

^a Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; COUPLING LIGHT; METAL DIELECTRICS; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 56749158199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020142     Document Type: Article

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