Hybrid plasmonic waveguide with gain medium for lossless propagation with nanoscale confinement

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2312-2314

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Cai, Likang ^a   Bai, Wenli ^a   Xu, Yun ^a   Song, Guofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING LAYER; GAIN MEDIUM; HYBRID MODE; INGAASP; LOSSLESS; LOW LOSS; MATERIAL GAIN; MODE AREA; NANOSCALE CONFINEMENT; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; STRONG FIELD; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOSYSTEMS; NANOWIRES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79959428705     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002312     Document Type: Article

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