Experimental demonstration of plasmon propagation, coupling, and splitting in silver nanowire at 1550-nm wavelength

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1107-1111

  Li, Qiang ^a   Wang, Shanshan ^b   Chen, Yiting ^a   Yan, Min ^a   Tong, Limin ^b   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling; plasmonic devices; silver nanowire; surface plasmons polaritons (SPPs)

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; LOW LOSS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTH; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLASMON PROPAGATION; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; POWER RATIO; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SILVER NANOWIRE; SILVER NANOWIRES; SURFACE PLASMONS POLARITONS (SPPS);

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SILVER;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80051698279     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2070061     Document Type: Article

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