Nonlocal effects in a hybrid plasmonic waveguide for nanoscale confinement

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1430-1439

  Huang, Qiangsheng ^a   Bao, Fanglin ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; WAVEGUIDES;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ARBITRARY CROSS SECTION; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MODE AREA; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; NONLOCAL; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PROPAGATION MODE; SHARP TIP; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874030938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001430     Document Type: Article

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