Generation of surface plasmons at single subwavelength slits: From slit to ridge plasmon

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Laluet, J Y ^a   Drezet, A ^a   Genet, C ^a   Ebbesen, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; FOURIER PLANES; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION LIMITS; OPTICAL IMAGES; OPTIMUM VALUES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; SET-UPS; SIMPLE MODELS; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN METAL FILMS; TYPE INTERFERENCES;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONICS; PLASMONS;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 56749107430     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/10/105014     Document Type: Article

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