Hybrid dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide and wavelength selective components for efficiently controlling light at subwavelength scale

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2895-2901

  Chu, Hong Son ^a   Akimov, Yuriy A ^a   Bai, Ping ^a   Li, Er Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

ADD-DROP FILTERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CHANNEL ISOLATION; DATA-COMMUNICATION; EFFICIENT CONTROL; ELECTRONIC-PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; NANO SCALE; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; RING RESONATOR; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SMALL RINGS; STRONG FIELD; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; TRANSMISSION LOSS; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE COMPONENT;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 83155165326     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.002895     Document Type: Article

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