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Excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons by use of a zeroth-order Bessel beam
Hiroshi Kano1, Dai Nomura, Haruki Shibuya
1Muroran Institute of Technology, Mizumoto 27-1, Muroran, Jokkaido 505-8585, Japan. h-kano@elec.muroran-it.ac.jp
Applied Optics
|May 4, 2004
Abstract:
We report an experimental result that shows the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons by use of a zeroth-order Bessel beam. From the viewpoint of energy efficiency, the zeroth order Bessel beam is ideal for the local excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on a metal film. We introduce an optical setup using an axicon element in order to carry out the excitation.
