Excitation control of long-range surface plasmons by two incident beams

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9493-9500

  Miyata, Masashi ^a   Takahara, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EXCITATION CONTROLS; EXCITATION METHODS; INCIDENT BEAMS; INPUT SIGNAL; INTENSITY RATIO; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PLASMONIC DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861123082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009493     Document Type: Article

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