CMOS-compatible long-range dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3361-3367

  Shi, Xueliang ^a,b   Zhang, Xianmin ^b   Han, Zhanghua ^b   Levy, Uriel ^c   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

CMOS compatible plasmonic waveguides; Dielectric loaded waveguides; long range surface plasmon; plasmonic waveguides

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; DIELECTRIC-LOADED PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDES; HIGH-DENSITY INTEGRATION; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAFERS; WAVEGUIDE CHARACTERISTIC;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASMONS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84885581435     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2281823     Document Type: Article

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