Breakthroughs in photonics 2014: Relaxed total internal reflection

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Jahani, Saman ^a   Jacob, Zubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

metamaterials; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; LASER OPTICS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; METALLIC COMPONENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; SILICON PLATFORMS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84929093548     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2418266     Document Type: Article

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