Surface plasmon waveguide Schottky detector

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 8505-8514

  Akbari, Ali ^a   Tait, R Niall ^b   Berini, Pierre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

BAND GAPS; END-FIRE COUPLING; INFRA RED; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; INTERNAL PHOTOEMISSION; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE; N TYPE SILICON; OPTICAL FIBRE; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; PLASMON-POLARITON MODES; PLASMONICS; POWER MONITORING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SCHOTTKY DETECTORS; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS; SUPPORTING SURFACES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON WAVEGUIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77950878409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008505     Document Type: Article

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