Title :
Propagation length and coupling characteristics of a hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a uniform silica layer
Author :
Nagai, Masaharu ; Ishizaka, Yuhei ; Saitoh, Kunimasa ; Koshiba, Masanori
Author_Institution :
Div. of Media & Network Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We propose a hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a uniform silica layer and evaluate its propagation length and coupling characteristics. Numerical results show that we should carefully choose structural parameters to obtain a longer propagation length.
Keywords :
light propagation; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silicon compounds; SiO2; coupling characteristics; hybrid plasmonic waveguide; propagation length; structural parameters; uniform silica layer; Couplings; Metals; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Refractive index; Silicon; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600401
