Investigation of coupling length in a semi-cylindrical surface plasmonic coupler

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 741-744

  Dastmalchi, Pouya ^a   Granpayeh, Nosrat ^a   Rasouli Disfani, Majid ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; COUPLED PLASMON; COUPLING LENGTH; FINITE-ELEMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GAP PLASMON; PLASMONIC; SIMULATION RESULT; STRUCTURE PARAMETER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959342404     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-010-6238-3     Document Type: Article

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