Study of resonant modes of a periodic metallic array near a dielectric interface: Evanescent-to-propagating coupling via surface plasmon excitation

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-267

  Skigin, Diana C ^a,c   Lester, Marcelo ^b,c  

^a Grupo de Electromagnetismo Aplicado   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Sociales   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Enhanced transmission; Grating waveguide structures; Resonances; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; GRATING WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

COUPLINGS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 33644753083     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/3/006     Document Type: Article

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