Dynamic modifications to the plasmon resonance of a metallic nanoparticle coupled to a planar waveguide: Beyond the point-dipole limit

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1195-1203

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

POINT-DIPOLE LIMIT;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0041873085     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001195     Document Type: Article

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