Movable fiber-integrated hybrid plasmonic waveguide on metal film

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 434-436

  Zou, Chang Ling ^a   Sun, Fang Wen ^a   Dong, Chun Hua ^a   Xiao, Yun Feng ^b   Ren, Xi Feng ^a   Lv, Liu ^a   Chen, Xiang Dong ^a   Cui, Jin Ming ^a   Han, Zheng Fu ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adiabatic conversion; nanofiber; single emitter spectroscopy; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED COHERENCE; IN-LINE; LIGHT EMITTERS; METAL FILM; MODE AREA; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SINGLE EMITTER; SURFACE PLASMONS; TAPERED FIBER; ULTRA-SMALL; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLIC FILMS; NANOFIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84863148680     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2180520     Document Type: Article

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