Highly efficient interfacing of guided plasmons and photons in nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3756-3761

  Chen, Xue Wen ^a   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a   Agio, Mario ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTT COUPLING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LOSSLESS CHANNEL; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANO-FOCUSING; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; NEAR INFRARED; RAPID CONVERSION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC WIRE; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONS; PLASMONS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 71949125018     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9019424     Document Type: Article

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