Optical bistability in metal-insulator-metal plasmonic Bragg waveguides with Kerr nonlinear defects

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1307-1311

  Lu, Hua ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a   Gong, Yongkang ^a   Mao, Dong ^a   Wang, Leiran ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; MIM DEVICES; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; BRAGG WAVEGUIDE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GRATING WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NONLINEAR DEFECTS; NONLINEAR EFFECT;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 79958735603     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001307     Document Type: Article

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