Surface plasmon polariton propagation in organic nanofiber based plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8251-8260

  Leiner, Till ^a   Lemke, Christoph ^a   Jauernik, Stephan ^a   Müller, Mathias ^a   Fiutowski, Jacek ^b   Tavares, Luciana ^b   Thilsing Hansen, Kasper ^b   Kjelstrup Hansen, Jakob ^b   Magnussen, Olaf ^a   Rubahn, Horst Gunter ^b   Bauer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLD; NANOFIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TIME RESOLVED TWO-PHOTON PHOTOEMISSION; WAVE PACKET PROPAGATION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; PHOTON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOTONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84876006321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008251     Document Type: Article

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