Enhancing the efficiency of slit-coupling to surface-plasmon-polaritons via dispersion engineering

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18206-18216

  Mehfuz, R ^a   Maqsood, M W ^a   Chau, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING STRUCTURES; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FREE SPACE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; LAYER THICKNESS; METAL FILM; METAL SURFACES; PLANE WAVE; RADIATION COUPLING; SIMPLE METHOD; SLIT WIDTH; SURFACE-PLASMON; SURFACE-PLASMON-POLARITONS; WAVE VECTOR;

METALLIC FILMS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77956374385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018206     Document Type: Article

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