Subwavelength guiding of channel plasmon polaritons by textured metallic grooves at telecom wavelengths

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Li, Xiaoer ^a,b   Jiang, Tao ^b   Shen, Linfang ^a   Deng, Xiaohua ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL PLASMON-POLARITONS; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; ENERGY CONCENTRATION; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; SINGLE MODE PROPAGATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH LOCALIZATION; TELECOM; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR;

PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 84872915730     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4789440     Document Type: Article

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