Ultra-compact directional couplers and Mach–Zehnder interferometers employing surface plasmon polaritons

Optical directional couplers and Mach-Zehnder interferometers employing surface plasmon polaritons are proposed and their characteristics are analyzed numerically using a finite-difference time-dom ...

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