Negative refraction of airy plasmons in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1258-1260

  Lim, Yongjun ^a   Lee, Seung Yeol ^a   Kim, Kyoung Youm ^b   Park, Junghyun ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Airy beam; negative refraction; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

AIRY BEAM; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

LIGHT REFRACTION; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; REFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; WAVEGUIDES;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 80051883997     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2159301     Document Type: Article

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