Numerical simulation of ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on nanoscale plasmon metal gap waveguides

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1087-1089

  Inoue, S I ^a   Yokoyama, S ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUDE MODELS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; EO MODULATION; HALF-WAVE VOLTAGE; LORENTZ; MACH-ZEHNDER; METAL GAP WAVEGUIDE; MZ MODULATOR; NANO SCALE; NANO-SIZE; NANOSCALE METALS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SUBMICRON; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODULATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 70349934289     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.1578     Document Type: Article

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