Efficient coupler between silicon waveguide and hybrid plasmonic waveguide

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7987, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jing ^a   Song, Yi ^a   Yan, Min ^a   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coupler; Coupling efficiency; Plasmonic

Indexed keywords

COUPLER; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SPECTRUM RANGE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79953012949     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.888661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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