Slow light engineering in periodic-stub-assisted plasmonic waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1799-1804

  Wang, Guoxi ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

BUFFERING CAPACITIES; DELAY BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP; INFLECTION POINTS; INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT; OPTICAL BUFFER; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84875642823     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.001799     Document Type: Article

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