All-fiber hybrid photon-plasmon circuits: Integrating nanowire plasmonics with fiber optics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15698-15705

  Li, Xiyuan ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Guo, Xin ^a   Lou, Jingyi ^b   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

AG NANOWIRES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MACHZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION BANDS; OPTICAL POWER; PLASMONIC SENSING;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84879981219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015698     Document Type: Article

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