Cylindrical hybrid plasmonic waveguide for subwavelength confinement of light

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 6868-6871

  Chen, Daru ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; NANOSCALE THICKNESS; NORMAL COMPONENT; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; STRONG DISCONTINUITY; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 78650662820     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006868     Document Type: Article

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