Efficient unidirectional ridge excitation of surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7228-7232

  Radko, I P ^a   Bozhevolnyi, S I ^a   Brucoli, G ^b   Martin Moreno, L ^b   Garcia Vidal, F J ^c   Boltasseva, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION;

BEAM POSITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; EXCITATION EFFICIENCY; LEAKAGE RADIATION MICROSCOPIES; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN GOLD FILM;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 66549084742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007228     Document Type: Article

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