Trapping light in plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 598-623

  Park, Junghyun ^a   Kim, Kyoung Youm ^b   Lee II, Min ^a   Na, Hyunmin ^a   Lee, Seung Yeol ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; MIM DEVICES; PLASMONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; CUT-OFF; ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRICAL SYMMETRIES; GUIDED MODES; LOSSLESS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; METAL INSULATORS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SYMMETRIC MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 75249102787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000598     Document Type: Article

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