Bloch surface waves in ultrathin waveguides: Near-field investigation of mode polarization and propagation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1617-1625

  Sfez, Tristan ^a   Descrovi, Emiliano ^b   Yu, Libo ^a   Brunazzo, Daniele ^a   Quaglio, Marzia ^c   Dominici, Lorenzo ^d   Nakagawa, Wataru ^e   Michelotti, Francesco ^d   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^b   Martin, Olivier J F ^a   Herzig, Hans Peter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; NEAR-FIELD; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SURFACE MODES; ULTRA-THIN;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 77955785583     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001617     Document Type: Article

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