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Optical properties of a noble metal with a string-of-pearls insulator inhomogeneity

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  • Wirgin, Armand

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The configuration obtained by extracting, from the half space occupied by a noble metal, the material contained in the layer between two (in the mean parallel) periodic surfaces (gratings) and replacing it by an insulating material, is termed a string-of-pearls medium (SOPM). It reduces to a parallel-plane layered bicomposite medium (PPLBCM) for vanishing grating amplitudes and to a perfect mirror (PM) in the absence of the insulating layer. The spectra of the reflectivity for p-polarized incident light relative to the PM and PPLBCM are featureless, whereas those for the SOPM contain a series of spikes indicative of resonant coupling to the hybrid surface plasmons which are identified herein to be those associated with the eigenmodes of the PPLBCM.

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  • Wirgin, Armand, 1989. "Optical properties of a noble metal with a string-of-pearls insulator inhomogeneity," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 382-387.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:157:y:1989:i:1:p:382-387
    DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90331-2
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