Directional excitation of surface plasmon polaritons via nanoslits under varied incidence observed using leakage radiation microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4893-4902

  Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a   Kerman, Sarp ^a   Di Martino, Giuliana ^a   Lei, Dang Yuan ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; LEAKAGE RADIATION; NANOSLITS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; PUMP BEAMS; SINGLE SLIT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THIN GOLD FILM;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84857594934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004893     Document Type: Article

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