Optimal tapers for compensating losses in plasmonic waveguides

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 277-279

  Davoyan, Arthur R ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Gramotnev, Dmitri K ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Nanophotonics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Plasmonics; Subwavelength optics; Taper; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LOSS COMPENSATION; OPTIMAL FUNCTION; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; SUB-WAVELENGTH OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TAPER; TAPERED SLOTS;

OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 77958572920     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201004220     Document Type: Article

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