Long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 23009-23015

  Holmgaard, Tobias ^a   Gosciniak, Jacek ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FILMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRO-OPTICS; GOLD STRIPES; HIGH-INDEX; OPTICAL POLYMERS; PLANAR FABRICATION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; UV LITHOGRAPHY; WAVE-GUIDING;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 78149377049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023009     Document Type: Article

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