Research Article
Theoretical Investigation of an Air-Slot Mode-Size Matcher between Dielectric and MDM Plasmonic Waveguides
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(a) A schematic of our proposed ASC that shows the design parameters and (b–f) dependence of the spectrum response of ASC on the length of the air-slot coupler LASC, the length of the MDM plasmonic waveguide LMDM, the width of the silicon waveguide , the width of the slot waveguide , and the misalignment between the position of the air-slot waveguide with respect to the center of the silicon waveguide S, respectively.
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