Hybrid three-arm coupler consisted of long range surface plasmon polariton and dielectric waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 3872-3882

  Liu, Fang ^a   Wan, Ruiyuan ^a   Rao, Yi ^a   Zheng, Yuxin ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Peng, Jiangde ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid coupler; Long range surface plasmon polariton (LRSPP); Polarization splitter

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MECHANISMS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; STRIP METAL; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; COUPLING LENGTHS; COUPLING LOSS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FINITE ELEMENTS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; HYBRID COUPLER; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON (LRSPP); LOSSLESS; METAL STRIPS; POLARIZATION SPLITTER; TM MODES; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 60949086791     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.928397     Document Type: Article

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