Gap plasmon mode of eccentric coaxial metal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5311-5320

  Gordon, Reuven ^a   Choudhury, Asif I K ^a   Lu, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

COAXIAL STRUCTURES; COAXIAL WAVEGUIDES; ECCENTRIC STRUCTURE; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; FIELD LOCALIZATION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; METALS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 65249184982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005311     Document Type: Article

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