Plasmonic nanofocusing of light in an integrated silicon photonics platform

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13150-13157

  Desiatov, Boris ^a   Goykhman, Ilya ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; LAB ON A CHIP; LIGHT DETECTION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MAGNITUDE ENHANCEMENT; NANO SCALE; NANO-FOCUSING; NEAR-FIELD; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; OPTICAL STORAGE SYSTEMS; PLASMONIC; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON PLATFORMS; SPOT SIZES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

LIGHT;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 79959907872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013150     Document Type: Article

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