Design and characterization of dielectric-loaded plasmonic directional couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5521-5528

  Holmgaard, Tobias ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a,b   Markey, Laurent ^c   Dereux, Alain ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Dielectric loaded waveguides; Directional couplers; Integrated optics devices; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PLASMONICS; SEPARATION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; NEAR-FIELD CHARACTERIZATIONS; PLASMONIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SIGNALS; TWO DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 70350726392     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2031654     Document Type: Article

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