Optical Kerr Nonlinear Performance of Metal-Cap Wedged-Shape Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide
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Majlesi Journal of Telecommunication Devices
Hossein Rahimi
1
,
Mahmoud Nikoufard
2
,
Mojtaba Dehghani Firouzabadi
3
1 - Department of Electrical Engineering, , College of Technical, Khomein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomein, Iran
2 - Department of Electronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
3 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
Received: 2022-12-10
Accepted : 2023-02-14
Published : 2023-03-01
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