Performance of electro-optical plasmonic ring resonators at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2354-2362

  Randhawa, Sukanya ^a   Lachèze, Sébastien ^b,c   Renger, Jan ^a   Bouhelier, Alexandre ^b   De Lamaestre, Roch Espiau ^c   Dereux, Alain ^b   Quidant, Romain ^a,d  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c CEA LETI   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL; HOST MATRICES; PLANAR ELECTRODE; PLASMONIC; RING RESONATOR; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TRANSMISSION RESPONSE;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84856466530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002354     Document Type: Article

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