A narrow-band subwavelength plasmonic waveguide filter with asymmetrical multiple-teeth-shaped structure

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13989-13994

  Tao, Jin ^a   Huang, Xu Guang ^a   Lin, Xianshi ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Jin, Xiaopin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

ASYMMETRICAL STRUCTURES; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; PASS-BAND FILTERS; PERFECTLY-MATCHED LAYER ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PLASMONIC FILTERS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SHAPED STRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349148174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013989     Document Type: Article

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