Solving dielectric and plasmonic waveguide dispersion relations on a pocket calculator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24112-24129

  Kekatpure, Rohan D ^a   Hryciw, Aaron C ^a   Barnard, Edward S ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONICS; POCKET CALCULATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEX DOMAINS; COMPLEXITY RESULTS; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; INITIAL GUESS; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; MULTILAYER DIELECTRICS; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

PLASMONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 73949084180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024112     Document Type: Article

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