Destructive interference effect on surface plasmon resonance in terahertz attenuated total reflection

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10801-10814

  Hirori, Hideki ^a   Nagai, Masaya ^a   Tanaka, Koichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PRISM-AIR INTERFACE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE FREQUENCY; TERAHERTZ PULSES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 29244462469     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010801     Document Type: Article

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