Enhanced coupling efficiency between dielectric and hybrid plasmonic waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1426-1431

  Shi, Peng ^a   Zhou, Guangya ^a   Chau, Fook Siong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING PERFORMANCE; COUPLING STRUCTURES; DIRECT COUPLING; FRESNEL FORMULA; HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; INTERFACE SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84878696591     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.001426     Document Type: Article

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