Hybrid wedge plasmon polariton waveguide with good fabrication-error- tolerance for ultra-deep-subwavelength mode confinement

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22417-22422

  Bian, Yusheng ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^a   Liu, Ya ^a   Liu, Jiansheng ^a   Zhu, Jinsong ^b   Zhou, Tao ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC NANOWIRES; FABRICATION IMPERFECTIONS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GAP REGIONS; HIGH-INDEX; HYBRID SURFACE; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; METAL WEDGES; MODAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; STRONG COUPLING; WEDGE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 80755143320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022417     Document Type: Article

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