Excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons by use of a zeroth-order Bessel beam

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2409-2411

  Kano, Hiroshi ^a   Nomura, Dai ^a   Shibuya, Haruki ^a  

^a MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AXICON ELEMENT; BESSEL BEAM; REFRACTIVE INDEX MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 2142805995     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002409     Document Type: Article

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