Dielectric-based extremely-low-loss subwavelength-light transport at the nanoscale: An alternative to surface-plasmon-mediated waveguiding

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Du, Junjie ^a,b,c   Liu, Shiyang ^a,b   Lin, Zhifang ^b   Zi, Jian ^b   Chui, S T ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; INTRINSIC ABSORPTIONS; LIGHT TRANSPORT; LOW LOSS; MATERIAL LOSS; NANO SCALE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE-PLASMON; TRANSVERSE CONFINEMENT; WAVE-GUIDING;

NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79952664765     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.035803     Document Type: Article

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