Subwavelength broadband splitters and switches for femtosecond plasmonic signals

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11810-11820

  Reiserer, Andreas A ^a   Huang, Jer Shing ^a   Hecht, Bert ^a   Brixner, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALYTIC APPROACH; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FEMTOSECONDS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERR EFFECTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SWITCHING RATES; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77952813585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011810     Document Type: Article

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