Remote grating-assisted excitation of narrow-band surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23857-23864

  Lee, Tae Woo ^a   Gray, Stephen K ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; HIGH QUALITY; INCIDENT LIGHT; METAL FILM; NARROW BANDS; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78149455700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023857     Document Type: Article

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