Plasmon switching: Observation of dynamic surface plasmon steering by selective mode excitation in a sub-wavelength slit

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15326-15335

  Raghunathan, S B ^a   Gan, C H ^b,c   Van Dijk, T ^d   Kim, B Ea ^b   Schouten, H F ^d   Ubachs, W ^d   Lalanne, P ^b,e   Visser, T D ^a,d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; COHERENT BEAMS; DIFFRACTED FIELD; DYNAMIC SURFACE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; SELECTIVE MODE EXCITATION; STEERING METHOD; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS; SYMMETRIC MODE; THIN METAL FILMS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84863734197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015326     Document Type: Article

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