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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Inventor:
Min-Su Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/10 (2006.01); G02B 6/036 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/036 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surface plasmon optical waveguide includes a lower cladding, a metal thin layer on the lower cladding, low-k dielectric layers spaced apart from each other on one surface of the metal thin layer, and an upper cladding covering the low-k dielectric layers and the metal thin layer uncovered between the low-k dielectric layers. A refractive index of the low-k dielectric layers is less than a refractive index of the lower and upper claddings.