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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 3, 149(2018)

Numerical analysis of end-fire coupling of surface plasmon polaritons in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide using a simple photoplastic connector

Yevhenii M. Morozov1,2, Anatoliy S. Lapchuk2, Ming-Lei Fu1, Andriy A. Kryuchyn2, Hao-Ran Huang1, and Zi-Chun Le1、*
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  • 1College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
  • 2Institute for Information Recording of NAS of Ukraine, Shpak Str. 2, Kiev 03113, Ukraine
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    Yevhenii M. Morozov, Anatoliy S. Lapchuk, Ming-Lei Fu, Andriy A. Kryuchyn, Hao-Ran Huang, Zi-Chun Le, "Numerical analysis of end-fire coupling of surface plasmon polaritons in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide using a simple photoplastic connector," Photonics Res. 6, 149 (2018)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Surface Plasmons

    Received: Sep. 4, 2017

    Accepted: Jan. 2, 2018

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

    The Author Email: Zi-Chun Le (lzc@zjut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000149

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