Waveguide-fed optical hybrid plasmonic patch nano-antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 18326-18335

  Yousefi, Leila ^a   Foster, Amy C ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

1550 NM; 3-DIMENSIONAL; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; BEAM ANGLE; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DIRECTIVITY; NANOANTENNAS; OPERATIONAL MODES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND SENSING; OPTICAL HYBRIDS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OUT-OF PLANE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RELATIVE PHASE; SURFACE PLASMONS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELS; WAVE IMPEDANCES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84864612043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018326     Document Type: Article

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