Advanced mid-infrared plasmonic waveguides for on-chip integrated photonics

Mauro David; Davide Disnan; Elena Arigliani; Anna Lardschneider; Georg Marschick; Hanh T. Hoang; Hermann Detz; Bernhard Lendl; Ulrich Schmid; Gottfried Strasser; Borislav Hinkov

doi:10.1364/PRJ.495729

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 10, 1694(2023)

Advanced mid-infrared plasmonic waveguides for on-chip integrated photonics

Mauro David¹, Davide Disnan², Elena Arigliani¹, Anna Lardschneider¹, Georg Marschick¹, Hanh T. Hoang¹, Hermann Detz^1,3, Bernhard Lendl⁴, Ulrich Schmid², Gottfried Strasser¹, and Borislav Hinkov^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Solid State Electronics and Center for Micro- and Nanostructures, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

²Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

³Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

⁴Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Vienna, Austria

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Mauro David, Davide Disnan, Elena Arigliani, Anna Lardschneider, Georg Marschick, Hanh T. Hoang, Hermann Detz, Bernhard Lendl, Ulrich Schmid, Gottfried Strasser, Borislav Hinkov, "Advanced mid-infrared plasmonic waveguides for on-chip integrated photonics," Photonics Res. 11, 1694 (2023)

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Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: May. 16, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 24, 2023

Published Online: Sep. 27, 2023

The Author Email: Borislav Hinkov (borislav.hinkov@tuwien.ac.at)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.495729

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