Implementation of PT symmetric devices using plasmonics: Principle and applications

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18004-18019

  Benisty, Henri ^a   Degiron, Aloyse ^b   Lupu, Anatole ^b   Lustrac, André De ^b   Chénais, Sébastien ^c   Forget, Sébastien ^c   Besbes, Mondher ^a   Barbillon, Grégory ^a   Bruyant, Aurélien ^d   Blaize, Sylvain ^d   Lérondel, Gilles ^d  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Centrale de Proximité en Nanotechnologies de Paris Nord   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; WAVEGUIDES;

BENEFICIAL USE; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; CRITICAL REGIMES; EIGEN-VALUE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSITION POINT; VARIABLE GAIN; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 80052712344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018004     Document Type: Article

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