Analysis of the Bloch mode spectra of surface polaritonic crystals in the weak and strong coupling regimes: Grating-enhanced transmission at oblique incidence and suppression of SPP radiative losses

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3652-3663

  Gerard D ^a   Salomon, L ^a   De Fornel, F ^a   Zayats, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FAR-FIELD TRANSMISSION; RADIATIVE LOSSES; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE POLARITONIC CRYSTALS; TUNNELING;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4644308490     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003652     Document Type: Article

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