Optically-programmable nonlinear photonic component for dielectric-loaded plasmonic circuitry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25222-25229

  Krasavin, Alexey V ^a   Randhawa, Sukanya ^b   Bouillard, Jean Sebastien ^a   Jan, Renger ^b   Quidant, Romain ^b,c   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

DIELECTRIC LOADED; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; NONLINEAR PHOTONICS; PLASMONIC CIRCUITRIES; POLYMER MATERIALS; PROGRAMMABLE AND RE-CONFIGURABLE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANS-CIS ISOMERIZATION;

PLASMONS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82955181226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025222     Document Type: Article

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