Nonlocal propagation and tunnelling of surface plasmons in metallic hourglass waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27509-27518

  Wiener, Aeneas ^a   Fernández Domínguez, Antonio I ^a   Pendry, J B ^a   Horsfield, Andrew P ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC TREATMENTS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GEOMETRIC SINGULARITY; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; PLASMONIC MODES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL DISPERSION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84887468031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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