Sub-μm2 power splitters by using silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 838-847

  Wang, Jianwei ^a   Guan, Xiaowei ^a   He, Yingran ^a   Shi, Yaocheng ^a,b   Wang, Zhechao ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b   Holmström, Petter ^b,c   Wosinski, Lech ^b,c   Thylen, Lars ^b,c   Dai, Daoxin ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PLASMONS;

BROAD BANDS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; NANO SCALE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POWER SPLITTERS; POWER SPLITTING RATIO; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TWO-MODE INTERFERENCE; VARIABLE POWER; WAVEGUIDE WIDTHS; Y-BRANCH;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78751488539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000838     Document Type: Article

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