Plasmonic-dielectric compound grating with high group-index and transmission

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1461-1469

  Dai, Lei ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Jiang, Chun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS;

ALTERNATE LAYERS; COMPOUND SYSTEM; CRYSTAL SUPERLATTICE; DIELECTRIC COMPOUNDS; DIELECTRIC GRATING; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; SURFACE MODES;

SLOW LIGHT;

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

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

EID: 78751526468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001461     Document Type: Article

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