Floating dielectric slab optical interconnection between metal-dielectric interface surface plasmon polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 676-687

  Kang, Minsu ^a   Park, Junghyun ^a   Lee, Il Min ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

PLASMONS;

EID: 58449107373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000676     Document Type: Article

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