Direct observation of a propagating, planar-waveguide surface mode in a discontinuous film of metal nanoparticles

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 1071-1073

  Soller, Brian J ^a   Hall, Dennis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL EXCITATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FILMS; RESONANCE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0000245192     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001071     Document Type: Article

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