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Determination of the Excitation and Coupling Rates Between Light Emitters and Surface Plasmon Polaritons
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Optical electric-field enhancement at a metal surface arising from surface-plasmon excitation

W H Weber, G W Ford

    Optics Letters
    |August 25, 2009
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