Nanowaveguides and couplers based on hybrid plasmonic modes

Experimental demonstration of silicon nanowires based hybrid plasmonic waveguides and couplers with subwavelength mode confinement at the near infrared wavelength lambda = 980 nm are presented. By ...

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