Compact Bragg grating with embedded metallic nano-structures

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15893-15900

  Mu, Jianwei ^a   Li, Xun ^a   Huang, Wei Ping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

DUTY CYCLES; ETCHED GRATINGS; ETCHING PROCESS; FABRICATION PROCESS; GRATING STRUCTURES; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LOSS MECHANISMS; METAL INSULATORS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; METALLIC STRIPS; POLARITONS; POLARIZATION CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIZED WAVE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TE MODE; TE WAVE; TM MODES; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE; WORKING MECHANISMS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77954916371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015893     Document Type: Article

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