Nonlinear plasmonic slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21209-21214

  Davoyan, Arthur R ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANTISYMMETRIC MODE; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; NONLINEAR DIELECTRIC; NONLINEAR MODE; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SYMMETRIC MODE; SYMMETRY-BREAKING BIFURCATIONS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 58149131568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021209     Document Type: Article

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