Hybrid plasmonic microdisk resonators for optical interconnect applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8781, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lou, Fei ^a   Thylen, Lars ^a,b   Wosinski, Lech ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid plasmonic; Microdisk; Quality factor

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RATIOS; HYBRID PLASMONIC; INTRINSIC QUALITY FACTORS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; MICRODISKS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; QUALITY FACTORS; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84880899125     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2017108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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