Ultrashort hybrid metal-insulator plasmonic directional coupler

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 7498-7503

  Noghani, Mahmoud Talafi ^a   Vadjed Samiei, Mohammad Hashem ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; PLASMONS; SILICON OXIDES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC LAYER; INTERACTION REGION; METAL INSULATORS; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; PLASMONIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; SUPER-MODE THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84887234811     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.007498     Document Type: Article

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