Surface plasmons in the Young slit doublet experiment

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Ravets, S ^a   Rodier, J C ^a   Ea Kim, B ^a   Hugonin, J P ^a   Jacubowiez, L ^a   Lalanne, P ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED LASERS; SURFACE WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPUTATION; FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; FOCUSED BEAMS; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; IN-LINE; NATURE OF SURFACE; SIMPLE MODEL; SINGLE SLIT; SURFACE PLASMONS; THERMAL INFRARED; YOUNG'S FRINGES; YOUNG'S SLITS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349785519     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000B28     Document Type: Article

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