Multiple trains of same-color surface plasmon-polaritons guided by the planar interface of a metal and a sculptured nematic thin film. Part V: Grating-coupled excitation

Faryad, Muhammad; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh

doi:doi:10.1117/1.3663210

GENERAL INFORMATION

You are not logged in Logged Out Log In

Journal of Nanophotonics / Volume 5 / Research Papers

Previous Article | Next Article

Multiple trains of same-color surface plasmon-polaritons guided by the planar interface of a metal and a sculptured nematic thin film. Part V: Grating-coupled excitation

J. Nanophoton. 5, 053527 (Dec 01, 2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.3663210

Alerts
- Alert Me When Cited
- Alert Me When Corrected
Tools
Share
- Email Abstract
- Connotea
- CiteULike
- del.icio.us
- BibSonomy
- Tweet this Article
- Add to Facebook

Abstract

References (35)

Citing Articles (12)

Muhammad Faryad and Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Pennsylvania State University, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Nanoengineered Metamaterials Group (NanoMM), University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6812

The excitation of multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves by the plane wave illumination of a metallic surface-relief grating coated with a sculptured nematic thin film (SNTF) was studied theoretically. The relevant boundary-value problem was formulated such that the grating plane and the morphologically significant plane of the SNTF can be rotated about a common axis with respect to each other. The rigorous coupled-wave analysis was employed to numerically solve the boundary-value problem. Absorptances were calculated as functions of the angle of incidence of a linearly polarized plane wave with wave vector lying wholly in the grating plane, and the excitation of the SPP waves was inferred from those peaks in the absorptance curves that were independent of the thickness of the SNTF. These peaks were successfully correlated with the solutions of the underlying canonical problem solved in Part IV of this series of papers.

History

Received Aug 12, 2011
Accepted Nov 01, 2011
Revised Oct 31, 2011
Published online Dec 01, 2011

Digital Object Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.3663210

Citation

Muhammad Faryad and Akhlesh Lakhtakia, "Multiple trains of same-color surface plasmon-polaritons guided by the planar interface of a metal and a sculptured nematic thin film. Part V: Grating-coupled excitation", J. Nanophoton. 5, 053527 (Dec 01, 2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.3663210