Numerical modeling of a teeth-shaped nanoplasmonic waveguide filter

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1263-1268

  Lin, Xianshi ^a   Huang, Xuguang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MIM DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

FILTERING FUNCTIONS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; MULTIPLE BEAM INTERFERENCE; NANOPLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC FILTERS; SCATTERING MATRIX METHOD; TRANSMITTANCE SPECTRA; WAVEGUIDE SPLITTERS;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 67849083184     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.001263     Document Type: Article

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