Characteristic impedance model for plasmonic metal slot waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1473-1478

  Ly Gagnon, Dany Sebastien ^a   Kocabaş, Sukru Ekin ^a   Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical planar waveguide components; Photodetectors; Plasmons

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCES; DETECTOR EFFICIENCIES; FABRYPEROT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; METALLIC LOSSES; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; PROPAGATING MODES; SLOT WAVEGUIDES; SUB WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 58149119969     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.917534     Document Type: Article

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