Study on active surface plasmon waveguides and design of a nanoscale lossless surface plasmon waveguide

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1258-1265

  Rao, Ruijian ^a,b   Tang, Tiantong ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xi'an Communications Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METAL WORKING; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; ACTIVE SURFACES; CORE AREA; EFFECTIVE INDEX; ENERGY FLUXES; GAIN COEFFICIENTS; IN-VACUUM; LOSSLESS; MAXIMUM GAIN; NANO SCALE; NANOMETER SIZE; SHORT-GUIDED WAVELENGTH; SINGLE MODE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON WAVEGUIDE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79959203499     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.001258     Document Type: Article

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