Surface plasmon polariton modulator with optimized active layer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8424, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Babicheva, Viktoriia E ^a,b   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

electro optical devices; integrated circuits; metal insulator metal waveguides; modulators; photonic interconnects; plasmonic waveguides; semiconductor optical devices; surface plasmons; switching applications

Indexed keywords

METAL INSULATOR METALS; PHOTONIC INTERCONNECTS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMONS; SWITCHING APPLICATIONS;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MODULATORS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE OPTICS; PERMITTIVITY; SILICON NITRIDE; TIN; TIN OXIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863556994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.922376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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