Loss compensation in long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25298-25310

  García Blanco, Sonia M ^a   Pollnau, Markus ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; DOUBLE TUNGSTATES; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LOSS COMPENSATION; RARE EARTH DOPED; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; WAVEGUIDE CONFIGURATIONS; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; TUNGSTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 82955226151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025298     Document Type: Article

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