Enhancement of transmission efficiency of nanoplasmonic wavelength demultiplexer based on channel drop filters and reflection nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 12885-12890

  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

DEMULTIPLEXING; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

CHANNEL DROP FILTERS; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; DEMULTIPLEXERS; DROP EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NANO SCALE; NANO-CAVITIES; PLASMONIC; STRUCTURE-BASED; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRIPLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXERS; WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXING; WDM SYSTEMS;

DROPS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959895996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012885     Document Type: Article

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