Low-loss hybrid plasmonic waveguide with double low-index nano-slots

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 17958-17966

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS;

1550 NM; CONFINEMENT FACTOR; EFFECTIVE AREA; LATERAL DIMENSION; LOW LOSS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POWER DENSITIES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SOI WAFERS; STRONG FIELD ENHANCEMENT; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ULTRA-HIGH; WIDE-SLOT;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77956367310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017958     Document Type: Article

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