An Efficient Large-Area Grating Coupler for Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-277

  Koev, Stephan T ^a,b   Agrawal, Amit ^a,b,c   Lezec, Henri J ^a   Aksyuk, Vladimir A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Gold; Grating coupler; Optimization; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864096891     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9303-7     Document Type: Article

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