High-Visibility On-Chip Quantum Interference of Single Surface Plasmons

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cai, Yong Jing ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Ren, Xi Feng ^a   Zou, Chang Ling ^a   Xiong, Xiao ^a   Lei, Hua Lin ^a   Liu, Bi Heng ^a   Guo, Guo Ping ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VISIBILITY; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTATION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM LOGIC GATE; QUANTUM PHOTONICS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

SURFACE PLASMONS;

EID: 84921498274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.014004     Document Type: Article

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