Nonlinear couplers with tapered plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9403-9408

  Salgueiro, José R ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

NANO SCALE; NONLINEAR COUPLER; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PLASMONIC; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TAPER ANGLES; TAPERED PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; TAPERED WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861163929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009403     Document Type: Article

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