Plasmonic/metallic passive waveguides and waveguide components for photonic dense integrated circuits: A feasibility study based on microwave engineering

IET Optoelectronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Berglind, E ^a,b,c   Thylen L ^a,b,c   Liu, L ^a,b,c,d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Kista Photonics Research Center   (Sweden)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF MODES; DENSE INTEGRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; HIGH INDEX; METALLIC WAVEGUIDE; MICROWAVE ENGINEERING; MICROWAVE METHODS; NEW MATERIAL; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; PHOTONIC TRANSMISSION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; Q-VALUES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; TELECOM; TRANSVERSAL FIELD; ZERO FREQUENCY;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 77249131711     PISSN: 17518768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2008.0045     Document Type: Article

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