Phase modulation of surface plasmon polaritons by surface relief dielectric structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 19271-19276

  Wang, Qian ^a   Yuan, Xiaocong ^b   Tan, Lpiausiong ^a   Zhang, Douguo ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; FREE-SPACE LIGHT; GEOMETRIC LENGTH; MODULATION METHODS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE RELIEFS;

MODULATION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 56149121962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019271     Document Type: Article

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