Mapping surface plasmon polariton propagation via counter-propagating light pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 12877-12884

  Lemke, Christoph ^a   Leißner, Till ^a   Jauernik, Stephan ^a   Klick, Alwin ^a   Fiutowski, Jacek ^b   Kjelstrup Hansen, Jakob ^b   Rubahn, Horst Günter ^b   Bauer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE OPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; LIGHT PULSE; NEAR-FIELD; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUMP-PROBE; REAL-TIME ACCESS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSIONS; VACUUM INTERFACES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863734039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012877     Document Type: Article

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