Experimental demonstration of ultra-compact directional couplers based on silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguides

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Lou, Fei ^a   Wang, Zhechao ^b   Dai, Daoxin ^c,d   Thylen, Lars ^a,c,e   Wosinski, Lech ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; COUPLING LENGTH; DIRECT MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSS;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863300332     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4729018     Document Type: Article

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