Efficient thermo-optically controlled Mach-Zhender interferometers using dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16300-16309

  Gosciniak, Jacek ^a   Markey, Laurent ^b   Dereux, Alain ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ACRYLATE POLYMERS; CYCLOALIPHATIC; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; MACH-ZHENDER INTERFEROMETERS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SWITCHING POWER; SWITCHING TIME; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 84864128134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016300     Document Type: Article

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