Electrically pumped hybrid plasmonic waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2681-2694

  Wijesinghe, Thamani ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 84893961352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.002681     Document Type: Article

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