Improved transmission model for metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides with stub structure

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6191-6204

  Pannipitiya, Asanka ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Hattori, Haroldo T ^b   Agrawal, Govind P ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALS; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL TOOL; ARBITRARY NUMBER; EQUIVALENT NETWORK; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION LINE; NUMERICAL DATA; OHMIC LOSS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM; OPTIMAL FILTERING; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RAPID DESIGN; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION MODEL; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77949649388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006191     Document Type: Article

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