Directional coupler and nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on metal-insulator-metal plasmonic waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21030-21037

  Pu, Mingbo ^a   Yao, Na ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Xin, Xuecheng ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; COUPLING LENGTH; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-BASED; KERR NONLINEAR MEDIUM; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NONLINEAR MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXERS;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 77958009944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021030     Document Type: Article

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