Surface wave generation and propagation on metallic subwavelength structures measured by far-field interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; INTERFEROMETRY; METALLIC FILMS; RESONANCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELEMENTARY ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; FAR-FIELD INTERFEROMETRY; PLASMON POLARITONS;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 33744789990     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.213901     Document Type: Article

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