Design of plasmonic photonic crystal resonant cavities for polarization sensitive infrared photodetectors

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3672-3686

  Rosenberg, Jessie ^a   Shenoi, Rajeev V ^b   Krishna, Sanjay ^b   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; RESONATORS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; DEGREE OF PRECISION; ENHANCED DETECTORS; IN-CHIP; INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; MID-INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC-PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; RESONANT CAVITY; RESONATOR STRUCTURES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77149151553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003672     Document Type: Article

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