Near-field imaging of surface plasmon-polariton guiding in band gap structures at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3303-3309

  Marquart, Carsten ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Leosson, Kristjan ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Micro Managed Photons A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GOLD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; THIN FILMS;

BAND GAP; NEAR-FIELD IMAGING; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON; TELECOM WAVELENGTH;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 21244504612     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003303     Document Type: Article

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