Bright and dark plasmon resonances of nanoplasmonic antennas evanescently coupled with a silicon nitride waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3088-3101

  Peyskens, Frédéric ^a   Subramanian, Ananth Z ^a   Neutens, Pieter ^b,c   Dhakal, Ashim ^a   Van Dorpe, Pol ^b,c   Le Thomas, Nicolas ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c IMEC ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOANTENNAS; NITRIDES; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

DARK PLASMONS; EFFICIENT COUPLING; EXCITATION FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL INTERACTIONS; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

EID: 84922821301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.003088     Document Type: Article

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