Surface plasmon-polariton Mach-Zehnder refractive index sensor

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1673-1677

  Nemova, Galina ^a   Kabashin, Andrey V ^a   Kashyap, Raman ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

MACH-ZEHNDER; MACHZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); OPTICAL SOLUTIONS; PHASE CHANGE; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; RELATIVE PHASE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 57349147869     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001673     Document Type: Article

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