Efficient low dispersion compact plasmonic-photonic coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12359-12365

  Sidiropoulos, T P H ^a   Maier, S A ^a   Oulton, R F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GROUP DELAY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIPOLE MODEL; DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; LIGHT COUPLINGS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEAR INFRARED; RELATIVE SCATTERING; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

DISPERSIONS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861494692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012359     Document Type: Article

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