One way optical waveguides for matched non-reciprocal nanoantennas with dynamic beam scanning functionality

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 101, 2013, Pages A77-A83

  Hadad, Yakir ^a   Steinberg, Ben Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DYNAMIC BEAM SCANNING; MATCHING CIRCUIT; MATCHING MECHANISMS; NANOANTENNAS; ONE-WAY WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872739964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000A77     Document Type: Article

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