Active plasmonics in WDM traffic switching applications

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Papaioannou, Sotirios ^a,b   Kalavrouziotis, Dimitrios ^c   Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos ^b   Weeber, Jean Claude ^d   Hassan, Karim ^d   Markey, Laurent ^d   Dereux, Alain ^d   Kumar, Ashwani ^e   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^e   Baus, Matthias ^f   Tekin, Tolga ^g   Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ^c   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^c   Pleros, Nikos ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f AMO GMBH   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER IZM   (Germany)

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EID: 84866985094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00652     Document Type: Article

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