Perfect absorber supported by optical Tamm states in plasmonic waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18393-18398

  Gong, Yongkang ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a   Lu, Hua ^a   Wang, Leiran ^a   Wang, Guoxi ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLASMONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL; DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; NEAR INFRARED; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL WAVES; PERFECT ABSORBER; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; THIN METALLIC LAYER; WAVEGUIDE CORE;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 80052727183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018393     Document Type: Article

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