Optical response of nanostructured surfaces: Experimental investigation of the composite diffracted evanescent wave model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6131, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gay, G ^a   Alloschery, O ^a   De Viaris Lesegno, B ^b   O'Dwyer, C ^c   Lezec, H ^d   Weiner, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Enhanced transmission; Subwavelength; Surface plasmons; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES;

COMPOSITE DIFFRACTIVE EVANESCENT WAVE (CDEW); ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; PLASMON POLARITONS; SUBWAVELENGTH;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33646169172     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.640924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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