Guided plasmonic modes of anisotropic slot waveguides

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 44, 2012, Pages

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; ANISOTROPY TENSORS; ANTI-SYMMETRIC; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FIELD PATTERNS; LOSS-LESS WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL MODES; OSCILLATORY MODE; PERMITTIVITY TENSORS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATING MODE; SLOT WAVEGUIDE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84867770951     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/44/444006     Document Type: Article

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