Mutual mode control of short- and long-range surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27402-27410

  Takahara, Junichi ^a   Miyata, Masashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; MODE CONVERSIONS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PROPAGATION MODE; SELECTIVE MODE EXCITATION; SHORT PROPAGATION; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84887435120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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