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Nonlinear optical phenomena

Surface plasmon — polaritons with negative and zero group velocities propagating in thin metal films

D. Yu. Fedyanin, A. V. Arsenin, V. G. Leiman, A. D. Gladun

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Moscow region

Abstract: The conditions of existence of surface electromagnetic waves with negative and zero group velocities propagating in a thin metal film bounded by dielectric media with different refractive indices are found. Analytic expressions are derived to determine the group velocities of such waves, which are of interest for calculating and optimising optical systems of insulator — metal — insulator type.

PACS: 73.20.Mf, 71.36.+c, 78.66.Bz

Received: 06.02.2009
Revised: 01.04.2009

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2009, 39:8, 745–750

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