Hybrid long-range surface plasmon-polariton modes with tight field confinement guided by asymmetrical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23603-23609

  Chen, Jianjun ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Yue, Song ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

1550 NM; CHANNEL PLASMON-POLARITONS; FINITE WIDTH; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PURE DIELECTRICS; RING RESONATOR; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 73949139070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023603     Document Type: Article

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