Strong coupling of light to flat metals via a buried nanovoid lattice: The interplay of localized and free plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1965-1972

  Teperik, Tatiana V ^a   Popov, Vyacheslav V ^a   García De Abajo, Javier F ^b   Abdelsalam, Mamdouh ^c   Bartlett, Philip N ^c   Keif, Tim A ^c   Sugawara, Yoshihiro ^c   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFLECTION;

FLAT METALS; METAL SURFACES; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PLASMONS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 33644747370     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001965     Document Type: Article

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