Field Correlations in Surface Plasmon Speckle
Optics
2019-06-11 v2
Abstract
In this work fluctuations in the electric field of surface plasmon polaritons undergoing random scattering on a rough metallic surface are considered. A rigorous closed form analytic expression is derived describing second order correlations in the resulting plasmon speckle pattern assuming statistically stationary and isotropic roughness. Partially coherent planar Schell-model source fields can also be described within the developed framework. Behaviour of the three-dimensional degree of cross polarisation and spectral degree of coherence is also discussed. Expressions derived take full account of dissipation in the metal with non-universal behaviour exhibited within the correlation length of the surface and source fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.00681,
title = {Field Correlations in Surface Plasmon Speckle},
author = {Matthew R. Foreman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00681},
year = {2019}
}