Bound modes analysis of symmetric dielectric loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3610-3618

  Yun, Binfeng ^a   Hu, Guohua ^a   Cui, Yiping ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDES;

BOUND MODE; DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; MODE INDEX; MODE SHAPES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 61549129647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003610     Document Type: Article

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