Graphene-supported manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic nanowaveguides

Hua Lu; Xuetao Gan; Dong Mao; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000162

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 3, 162(2017)

Graphene-supported manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic nanowaveguides

Hua Lu^1、*, Xuetao Gan¹, Dong Mao¹, and Jianlin Zhao^1,2

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

²e-mail: jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Plasmons

Received: Dec. 26, 2016

Accepted: Mar. 2, 2017

Published Online: Oct. 9, 2018

The Author Email: Hua Lu (hualu@nwpu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000162

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