Probing photonic Bloch wavefunctions with plasmon-coupled leakage radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8658-8666

  Regan, C J ^a   Thiabgoh, O ^b   Grave De Peralta, L ^a,b   Bernussi, A A ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS;

BACK FOCAL PLANES; FAR-FIELD; LEAKAGE RADIATION; LIGHT DIFFRACTION; METAL LAYER; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE EMISSIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84860143897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008658     Document Type: Article

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