Bouncing surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13757-13767

  Kuzmin, N V ^a   Alkemade, P F A ^b   T'Hooft, G W 'T ^a,c   Eliel, E R ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

BOUNCING SURFACE PLASMONS; INTERFEROMETRIC CAVITY; LOW FINESSE OPTICAL CAVITY; SUBWAVELENGTH WIDE SLITS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 35348970890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013757     Document Type: Article

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