Simple model for the observed plasmon conical radiation interference patterns in a Kretschmann configuration

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 36, 1998, Pages 8448-8452

  Auvil, Paul R ^a   Ketterson, John B ^a   Kim, Yung Kyu ^a   Kryukov, Anton ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PLASMAS; RADIATION; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

KRETSCHMANN CONFIGURATION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING IMAGES; PLASMON CONICAL RADIATION INTERFERENCE;

LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0032553820     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.008448     Document Type: Article

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