Surface plasmon polariton enhanced by optical parametric amplification in nonlinear hybrid waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2858-2865

  Lu, F F ^a   Li, T ^a   Xu, J ^a   Xie, Z D ^a   Li, L ^a   Zhu, S N ^a   Zhu, Y Y ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

GUIDED MODES; GUIDED WAVE; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; INCIDENT INTENSITY; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 79951621712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002858     Document Type: Article

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