Plasmonic filters and optical directional couplers based on wide metal-insulator-metal structure

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7633-7639

  Chen, Pixin ^a   Liang, Ruisheng ^a   Huang, Qiaodong ^a   Yu, Zhe ^a   Xu, Xingkai ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MIM DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

METAL INSULATOR METALS; METAL INSULATORS; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL STRUCTURES; NANO SCALE; OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; PLASMONIC; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; THIN METALS;

METALS;

EID: 79953880816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007633     Document Type: Article

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