Comparison of confinement and loss of plasmonic waveguides

2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 618-619

  Sun, X ^a   Alam, M Z ^a   Aitchison, J S ^a   Mojahedi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

integrated optics; mode confinement; propagation loss; surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POWER DENSITIES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 84871724115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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