Metal - Insulator - Metal surface plasmon politon waveguide filters with cascaded transverse cavities

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 714-720

  Diniz, Lorena O ^a   Nunes, Frederico D ^b   Mega Jr , Euclydes ^a   Weiner, John ^c   Borges, Ben Hur V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c National Institute for Standds and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity resonator filter; surface plasmon politon (SPP); waveguides

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; CASCADED CAVITIES; CAVITY RESONATOR FILTERS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; NEW APPROACHES; QUALITY FACTORS; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLITON (SPP); WAVEGUIDE FILTER;

CAVITY RESONATORS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MICROWAVE FILTERS; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 79952049733     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2101582     Document Type: Article

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