Ultrahigh nonlinear nanoshell plasmonic waveguide with total energy confinement

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23800-23808

  Hossain, Md M ^a   Turner, Mark D ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; HIGH NONLINEARITY; KERR NONLINEARITY; MODE ENERGIES; NANOSHELLS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TOTAL ENERGY;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82055170221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023800     Document Type: Article

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