Flat surface plasmon polariton bands in bragg grating waveguide for slow light

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2030-2036

  Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Cai, Likang ^a   Bai, Wenli ^a   Song, Guofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grating; plasmons; slow light; waveguide

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; BLOCH MODES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FLAT DISPERSION; FLAT SURFACES; GRATING; GRATING WAVEGUIDES; GROOVE DEPTH; PLASMONIC; PULSE EXCITATION; ROUND-TRIP PHASE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 77955671566     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2051320     Document Type: Article

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