Retardation effects on intra- and intersubband plasmons in quantum wells and their manifestations in grating-coupler-assisted optical transmission

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 16603-16610

  Kraft, T ^b  

^a D 07745   (Germany)

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EID: 4243288664     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16603     Document Type: Article

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31. It should be noted that in general there are two types of grating (or Wood’s) anomalies: (i) the Rayleigh wavelength-type and (ii) the resonance-type anomaly, which is connected with the excitation of a leaky surface wave propagating along the metallic grating. As shown in detail in Ref. 18 for the here discussed situation, the appearing tips and dips are caused by both types of Wood’s anomalies. This is true because in the far-infrared frequency range, both types of Wood’s anomalies occur at the same frequency and thus, cannot be distinguished. Because the onset of the Rayleigh wavelength-type anomaly is exactly determined by the onset (or disappearance) of a particular diffracted order of the propagating beam (in the substrate for transmission), in the present paper we call the appearing anomalies Rayleigh anomaly.