Asymmetric plasmonic-dielectric coupler with short coupling length, high extinction ratio, and low insertion loss

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 3153-3155

  Li, Qiang ^a   Song, Yi ^a   Zhou, Gan ^b   Su, Yikai ^b   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING LENGTH; DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; HYBRID COUPLER; LOW INSERTION LOSS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL ROUTING; SILICON-BASED; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

BANDPASS FILTERS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; LIGHT EXTINCTION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 78149245628     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.003153     Document Type: Article

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