plasmonics
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thumb|260px|A Hybrid plasmonic waveguide|plasmonic waveguide design to facilitate [[negative refraction in visible spectrum]] Plasmonics or nanoplasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dielectric interfaces in the nanometer scale. Inspired by photonics, plasmonics follows the trend of miniaturizing optical devices (see also nanophotonics), and finds applications in sensing, microscopy, optical communications, and bio-photonics.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Principles
- Motivation and current challenges
- Waveguiding
- Coupling
- Active devices
- Passive devices
- See also
- References
thumb|260px|A Hybrid plasmonic waveguide|plasmonic waveguide design to facilitate [[negative refraction in visible spectrum]] Plasmonics or nanoplasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dielectric interfaces in the nanometer scale. Inspired by photonics, plasmonics follows the trend of miniaturizing optical devices (see also nanophotonics), and finds applications in sensing, microscopy, optical communications, and bio-photonics.
== Principles ==
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