Grating couplers for broadside input and output coupling of long-range surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 8006-8018

  Chen, Chengkun ^a   Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BACK REFLECTION; COUPLING GRATINGS; GRATING COUPLERS; GRATING DESIGN; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; MEMBRANE WAVEGUIDES; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 77950897182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008006     Document Type: Article

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