High efficiency excitation of plasmonic waveguides with vertically integrated resonant bowtie apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8036-8045

  Kinzel, Edward C ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMMUNICATION DEVICE; HIGH TRANSMISSION; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; VERTICAL EXCITATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 66449110534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008036     Document Type: Article

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