A tunable unidirectional surface plasmon polaritons source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20457-20464

  Wang, Yueke ^a   Zhang, Xueru ^a   Tang, Haijun ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Wang, Yuxiao ^a   Song, Yinglin ^a   Wei, Tai Huei ^b   Wang, C H ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

F-P INTERFEROMETERS; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY SPLITTING RATIOS; SILVER FILM; SPLITTING RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70749103418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020457     Document Type: Article

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