Plasmonic Multi-Mode Interference Couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17471-17482

  Tsai, Yu Ju ^a   Degiron, Aloyse ^a   Jokerst, Nan M ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; MATERIAL LOSS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MMI-COUPLER; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 70349671612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017471     Document Type: Article

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