Thermo-optic control of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide components

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1207-1216

  Gosciniak, Jacek ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Andersen, Thomas B ^a   Volkov, Valentyn S ^a   Kjelstrup Hansen, Jakob ^b   Markey, Laurent ^c   Dereux, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

DC SWITCH; GOLD STRIPES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RING RESONATOR; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; THERMOOPTICS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 75249088560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001207     Document Type: Article

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