Interferometric measurement of the phase of diffracted waves near the plasmon resonances of metallic gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 5575-5582

  Destouches, Nathalie ^a   Giovannini, Hugues ^a   Lequime, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

WAVELENGTH;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0038498545     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005575     Document Type: Article

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