Analysis of propagation characteristics in the surface plasmon polariton gap waveguides by method of lines

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1078-1092

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Minh, Tran Trong ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVEGUIDES;

ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; COMPLEX PROPAGATION CONSTANTS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; SLAB STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 58449113822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001078     Document Type: Article

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