Metal slit array Fresnel lens for wavelength-scale optical coupling to nanophotonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18852-18857

  Jung, Young Jin ^a   Park, Dongwon ^a   Koo, Sukmo ^a   Yu, Sunkyu ^a   Park, Namkyoo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LENS ANTENNAS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; PHASED ANTENNA ARRAYS; PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; WORKING DISTANCES;

LENSES;

EID: 70350279580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018852     Document Type: Article

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