Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 63(2012)

Effect of dipole location on profile properties of symmetric surface plasmon polariton mode in Au/Al2O3/Au waveguide

Gongli XIAO1,2, Xiang JI1, Linfei GAO1, Xingjun WANG1, and Zhiping ZHOU1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Information and Communications College, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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    Gongli XIAO, Xiang JI, Linfei GAO, Xingjun WANG, Zhiping ZHOU. Effect of dipole location on profile properties of symmetric surface plasmon polariton mode in Au/Al2O3/Au waveguide[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 63

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 13, 2011

    Accepted: Sep. 6, 2011

    Published Online: Sep. 10, 2012

    The Author Email: Zhiping ZHOU (zjzhou@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-012-0184-y

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