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Determination of the Excitation and Coupling Rates Between Light Emitters and Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Published on: July 21, 2018
Surface-plasmon polariton solutions at a lossy slab in a symmetric surrounding
Abstract:
A rigorous theoretical formulation based on electromagnetic plane waves is utilized to construct a unified framework and identification of all possible surface-plasmon polariton solutions at an absorptive slab in a symmetric, lossless dielectric surrounding. In addition to the modes reported in literature, sets of entirely new mode solutions are presented. The corresponding fields are classified into different categories and examined in terms of bound and leaky modes, as well as forward-and backward-propagating modes, both outside and inside the slab. The results could benefit plasmon based applications in thin-film nanophotonics.
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