Low-loss light transport at the subwavelength scale in silicon nano-slot based symmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguiding schemes

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23907-23920

  Bian, Yusheng ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID CONFIGURATIONS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

EID: 84885440213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023907     Document Type: Article

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