Title : 
Focusing of Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Surface Parabolic Dielectric Gratings
         
        
            Author : 
Hung, Yu-Ju ; Smolyaninov, Igor I. ; Davis, Christopher C.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Focusing of surface plasmon polaritons by parabolic dielectric gratings formed on top of a 100 nm thick Au film has been studied. Complex interference effects are observed in a "cavity" between two sets of parabolic gratings.
         
        
            Keywords : 
diffraction gratings; gold; metallic thin films; polaritons; surface plasmons; Au; complex interference effects; size 100 nm; surface parabolic dielectric gratings; surface plasmon polaritons; Dielectrics; Diffraction gratings; Focusing; Glass; Gold; Interference; Optical films; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Surface waves;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Baltimore, MD
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-834-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453141