Plasmonic Variable Optical Attenuator Based on Liquid-Crystal Tunable Stripe Waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 599-604

  Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C ^a   Beccherelli, Romeo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Guided wave plasmonics; Integrated optic devices; Liquid crystal photonics; Optical interconnects; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877633654     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9440-7     Document Type: Article

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