Integrated plasmonic semi-circular launcher for dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6541-6548

  Li, Xiaowei ^a   Huang, Lingling ^a   Tan, Qiaofeng ^a   Bai, Benfeng ^a,b   Jin, Guofan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; LAUNCHING; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING PERFORMANCE; FOCAL PLANE; INCIDENT ANGLES; PLASMONIC; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL FIELDS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

PLASMONS;

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

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

EID: 79953170609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006541     Document Type: Article

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