Metallic-Grating-Based Interconnector Between Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5675-5680

  Choi, Dawoon ^a   Lee, Il Min ^a   Park, Junghyun ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^a   Han, Jae Hoon ^a,c   Jung, Jaehoon ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c Woori Bank   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Metallic grating; optical interconnection; plasmonics; surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008050239     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2033719     Document Type: Article

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