Self-focusing of femtosecond surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1121-1127

  Pusch, Andreas ^a,b   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^b   Hess, Ortwin ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

DEFOCUSING; DIELECTRIC MEDIUM; FEMTOSECONDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PLASMONIC; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SELF-FOCUSING; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84872719761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001121     Document Type: Article

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