Design of a monopole-antenna-based resonant nanocavity for detection of optical power from hybrid plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17075-17085

  Ooi, Kelvin J A ^a,b   Bai, Ping ^a   Gu, Ming Xia ^a   Ang, Lay Kee ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; GERMANIUM; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANTENNA FEEDS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; FIELD RESONANCE; MAXIMUM POWER; METALLIC NANORODS; METALLIC PART; NANO SCALE; NANO-CAVITIES; OPTICAL POWER; PHOTO DETECTION; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SIMULATION RESULT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 80052220441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017075     Document Type: Article

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