Enhancement of optics-to-THz conversion efficiency by metallic slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13502-13515

  Ruan, Zhichao ^a,b   Veronis, Georgios ^c   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^a   Fejer, Marty M ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISPERSIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MATCHING; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; FREQUENCY-CONVERSION PROCESS; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; METALLIC WAVEGUIDE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349131587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013502     Document Type: Article

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