Study of an active hybrid gap surface plasmon polariton waveguide with nanoscale confinement size and low compensation gain

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Rao, Ruijian ^a,b   Tang, Tiantong ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDIUM; COMPENSATION GAIN; DOUBLE HETEROSTRUCTURES; EFFECTIVE MODE AREAS; GAINASP; GAP SIZE; INP; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; POYNTING VECTORS; PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON-BASED; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; THRESHOLD GAIN; TWO SOURCES; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PUMPING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84861886357     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/24/245101     Document Type: Article

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