Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide with a holey ridge for propagation-loss reduction and subwavelength mode confinement

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23756-23762

  Bian, Yusheng ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^a   Liu, Ya ^a   Zhu, Jinsong ^b   Zhou, Tao ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

FIGURE OF MERIT; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HIGH-INDEX; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LOSS REDUCTION; METAL SURFACES; MODE AREA; NANOHOLES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78149440760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023756     Document Type: Article

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