Excitation of remarkably nondispersive surface plasmons on a nondiffracting, dual-pitch metal grating
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A nondiffracting metallic lamellar grating formed from three equally spaced grooves per repeat period, with one being slightly shallower than the other two is examined at microwave frequencies. When filled with a slightly lossy dielectric, this structure supports a remarkably nondispersive surface plasmon polariton mode, which exhibits strong selective absorption of incident power. Measured reflectivities show excellent agreement with the results predicted by a rigorous coupled wave theory. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1465518#
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تاریخ انتشار 2002