Active metal strip hybrid plasmonic waveguide with low critical material gain

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11487-11495

  Gao, Linfei ^a   Tang, Liangxiao ^a   Hu, Feifei ^a   Guo, Ruimin ^a,b   Wang, Xingjun ^a   Zhou, Zhiping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; STRATEGIC MATERIALS; STRIP METAL;

ACTIVE APPLICATION; ACTIVE METALS; COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; FABRICATION PROCEDURE; GAIN MATERIALS; HIGH-INDEX; HIGH-INDEX LAYERS; LOSS COMPENSATION; MATERIAL GAIN; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

METAL;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861147461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011487     Document Type: Article

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