Kg. Muller et al., PLASMON SURFACE POLARITON COUPLING WITH DIELECTRIC GRATINGS AND THE THERMAL-DECOMPOSITION OF THESE DIELECTRIC GRATINGS, Journal of applied physics, 82(9), 1997, pp. 4172-4176
We demonstrate a simple method for plasmon surface polariton coupling.
A dielectric layer sinusoidally modulated in height (dielectric grati
ng) on top of a metal layer is used as the dispersive element for the
momentum coupling between the incoming photon and the plasmon surface
polariton. Hence, no modulation of the metal surface is necessary. Thi
s coupling method is used to study the thermal decomposition of dielec
tric gratings. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(97)
06520-1].