Tunable optical filter using long-range surface plasmons

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1537-1541

  Kajenski, Peter J ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian beam analysis; Long range surface plasmon; Plane wave excitation; Tunable optical filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000468165     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601376     Document Type: Article

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