Observation of coupled plasmon-polariton modes of plasmon waveguides for electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4810, Issue , 2002, Pages 71-81

  Maier, Stefan A ^a   Kik, Pieter G ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a   Meltzer, Sheffer ^b   Requicha, A G ^b   Koel, Bruce E ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal nanoparticles; Near field optics; NSOM; Plasmon waveguides; Plasmon polariton; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLED PLASMON-POLARITON MODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY TRANSPORT; FAR FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMON WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036980666     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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