Grating couplers for fiber-to-fiber characterizations of stand-alone dielectric loaded surface plasmon waveguide components

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 3118-3125

  Nielsen, Michael G ^a,b   Weeber, Jean Claude ^a   Hassan, Karim ^a   Fatome, Julien ^a   Finot, Christophe ^a   Kaya, Serkan ^a   Markey, Laurent ^a   Albrektsen, Ole ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Millot, Guy ^a   Dereux, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dielectric loaded waveguides; grating couplers; surface plasmon Bloch mode

Indexed keywords

BLOCH MODES; BRAGG MIRRORS; DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDES; FILLING FACTOR; GRATING COUPLERS; HIGH BIT RATES; LIGHT INJECTION; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLYMER GRATINGS; POWER PENALTY; STAND -ALONE; SUBMICRON; SURFACE PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES; THIN GOLD FILM; TILTED INCIDENCE;

CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84866889241     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2212418     Document Type: Article

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