Design and analysis of metal/multi-insulator/metal waveguide plasmonic Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 13258-13270

  Chang, Yin Jung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; SILICA;

1550 NM; BRAGG CONDITIONS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTED WAVES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DYNAMIC RANGE; FWHM BANDWIDTH; GRATING LENGTH; INDEX MODULATION; NARROW BANDS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL GRATINGS; POWER COUPLING; SILICON INTERFACE; STOP-BANDS; TIME-AVERAGE POWER; WIDE-BAND;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77953546714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013258     Document Type: Article

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