Quadratic phase matching in nonlinear plasmonic nanoscale waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20063-20068

  Davoyan, Arthur R ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

METAL DIELECTRICS; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NONLINEAR STRUCTURE; PLASMONIC MODES; QUADRATIC PHASE;

PHASE MATCHING;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NIOBIUM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70749142655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020063     Document Type: Article

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