Optical configuration for unpolarized ultra-long-range surface-plasmon- polariton waves

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Jen, Yi Jun ^a   Yu, Ching Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; METALLIC FILMS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ADMITTANCE ANALYSIS; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS; POLARIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; THIN SILVER FILMS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 79952783501     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.00C154     Document Type: Article

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