Excitation of multiple surface-plasmon-polariton waves guided by the periodically corrugated interface of a metal and a periodic multilayered isotropic dielectric material

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 704-713

  Faryad, Muhammad ^a   Hall, Anthony Shoji ^a,b   Barber, Greg D ^b   Mallouk, Thomas E ^b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATED METAL; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ABSORPTANCE; ATTENUATION RATE; CORRUGATED INTERFACES; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; FINITE THICKNESS; FIXED PERIOD; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MULTI-LAYERED; NUMBER OF UNIT CELLS; PHASE SPEED; PLANAR INTERFACE; POLARIZATION STATE; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; STABLE ALGORITHMS; SURFACE RELIEF GRATINGS; TOTAL REFLECTANCE; UNIT CELLS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84861373078     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000704     Document Type: Article

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