Silicon-based plasmonics for on-chip photonics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 295-306

  Dionne, Jennifer A ^a   Sweatlock, Luke A ^b   Sheldon, Matthew T ^a   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced spontaneous emission; Nanophotonics; Optical modulation; Plasmon waveguides; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; ELECTRONIC WAVES; EMISSION SOURCES; ENHANCED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL WAVES; PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; PLASMONICS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SCALE SIZES; SI-BASED; SILICON-BASED; SILICON-BASED PHOTONIC DEVICE; SINGLE NANOCRYSTALS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT MODULATION; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SILICON; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 77049127373     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2034983     Document Type: Article

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