Excitation of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons on etched groove gratings

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 554-558

  Marti, Michael ^a   Darmo, Juraj ^a   Unterrainer, Karl ^a   Gornik, Erich ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EXCITATION MEASUREMENTS; GROOVE GRATINGS; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP); TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ SURFACES; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 63049127023     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000554     Document Type: Article

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