A plasmonic splitter based on slot cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13831-13838

  Guo, Yinghui ^a   Yan, Lianshan ^a   Pan, Wei ^a   Luo, Bin ^a   Wen, Kunhua ^a   Guo, Zhen ^a   Li, Hengyi ^b   Luo, Xiangang ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC; POWER SPLITTERS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79960474635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013831     Document Type: Article

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