Dielectric loaded graphene plasmon waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 5147-5153

  Xu, W ^a   Zhu, Z H ^a   Liu, K ^a   Zhang, J F ^a   Yuan, X D ^a   Lu, Q S ^a   Qin, S Q ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; GRAPHENE; WAVEGUIDES;

CUTOFF WAVELENGTHS; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; MID-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SINGLE MODE OPERATION;

SURFACE PLASMONS;

EID: 84924107859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.005147     Document Type: Article

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