Subwavelength hybrid terahertz waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22890-22897

  Nam, Sung Hyun ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Efimov, Anatoly ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC STRIPS; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; PLANAR INTEGRATIONS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDING PROPERTIES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 72049127304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022890     Document Type: Article

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