Near-Field Coupling Method for Subwavelength Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 557-563

  Hsu, Shen Yu ^a,c   Jen, Tai Hsiang ^b   Lin, En Hong ^a   Wei, Pei Kuen ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Fiber Optic Communications Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Near field; Surface plasmon polariton; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961172518     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9236-1     Document Type: Article

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