Backward and forward modes guided by metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Davoyan, Artur R ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

guided waves; losses; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LOSSES; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANTISYMMETRIC MODE; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; LOSSY STRUCTURES; METAL DIELECTRICS; METAL DISPERSIONS; PARAMETER RANGE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATING MODE;

METALS;

EID: 80455129543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3437397     Document Type: Article

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