Title :
Observation of surface plasmon waves generated by nanogrooves through spectral interference
Author :
Gan, Qiaoqiang ; Gao, Yongkang ; Zhu, Lin ; Bartoli, Filbert J.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
We present a simple far-field experiment to validate the theoretically predicted functional dependence of the SPP coupling efficiency on groove width, in good agreement with the SPP picture proposed by Lalanne et al..
Keywords :
light interference; nanophotonics; polaritons; surface plasmons; SPP coupling efficiency; nanogrooves; simple far-field experiment; spectral interference; surface plasmon polariton; surface plasmon wave generation;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698925
