Highly confined hybrid plasmonic modes guided by nanowire-embedded-metal grooves for low-loss propagation at 1550 nm

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bian, Yusheng ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^a   Zhao, Xin ^a   Su, Yalin ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Liu, Jiansheng ^a   Zhu, Jinsong ^b   Zhou, Tao ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguides; plasmons

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE DESIGNS; CHANNEL PLASMON-POLARITONS; HYBRID STRUCTURE; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; MODAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR FABRICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE;

METALS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84874755559     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2212002     Document Type: Article

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