Probing losses of dielectric multilayers by means of Bloch surface waves

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 616-618

  Michelotti, Francesco ^a   Sinibaldi, Alberto ^a   Munzert, Peter ^b   Danz, Norbert ^b   Descrovi, Emiliano ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; DYE ADSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; HIGH QUALITY; OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS; RESONANT EXCITATION; RHODAMINE 6G;

ETHANOL; EXCITED STATES; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; SURFACE WAVES;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 84874516119     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.000616     Document Type: Article

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