A silicon-based hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a metal cap for a nano-scale light confinement

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16646-16653

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LOW INDEX MATERIALS; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70349194939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016646     Document Type: Article

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