Propagation of designer surface plasmons in structured conductor surfaces with parabolic gradient index

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2997-3006

  Juluri, Bala Krishna ^a   Lin, Sz Chin S ^a   Walker, Thomas R ^a   Jensen, Lasse ^b   Huang, Tony Jun ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ENERGY CONCENTRATION; GRADED-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT INDEXES; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; PERFECT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR; SQUARE HOLES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

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

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

EID: 60549103072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002997     Document Type: Article

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