Nanoplasmonic loaded slot cavities for wavelength filtering and demultiplexing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zand, Iman ^a   Abrishamian, Mohammad S ^a   Pakizeh, Tavakol ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Loaded slot cavity; metal insulator metal (MIM) nanostructures; nanoplasmonics; optical filter

Indexed keywords

LOADED SLOT CAVITY; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NANOPLASMONICS; OPTICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL SEPARATION; WAVELENGTH CHANNELS; WAVELENGTH FILTERING;

NANORODS; OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 84877770938     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2224645     Document Type: Article

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