Broadband unidirectional generation of surface plasmon polaritons with dielectric-film-coated asymmetric single-slit

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26463-26469

  Chen, Jianjun ^a,b   Li, Zhi ^b   Lei, Ming ^a   Yue, Song ^b   Xiao, Jinghua ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC FILMS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; DEEP GROOVE; LATERAL DIMENSION; NANOSLITS; SINGLE SLIT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555218546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026463     Document Type: Article

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