Prism coupling to 'designer' surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20441-20447

  Hibbins, A P ^a   Hendry, E ^a   Lockyear, M J ^a   Sambes, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRISMS;

CLASSICAL METHODS; PRISM COUPLINGS; SURFACE MODES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 57349179998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020441     Document Type: Article

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