Mode-selective excitation of laser-written dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Reinhardt, Carsten ^a   Seidel, Andreas ^a   Evlyukhin, Andrey B ^a   Cheng, Wei ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; LASER EXCITATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN GLASS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FAR FIELD; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; GLASS SLIDES; GUIDING PROPERTIES; HIGH PRECISION; LEAKAGE RADIATION; MODE BEATING; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPLITTING RATIO; SUBSTRATE INTERFACE; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; TM MODES; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION; WAVEGUIDE MODE; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE; Y SPLITTER;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 73849106802     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000B55     Document Type: Article

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