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Highly Confined Optical Modes in Nanoscale Metal-Dielectric Multilayers

Optics 2007-06-13 v2

Abstract

We show that a stack of metal-dielectric nanolayers, in addition to the long- and short-range plasmons, guides also an entire family of modes strongly confined within the multilayer - the bulk plasmon modes. We propose the classification scheme that reflects specific properties of these modes. We report experimental verification of the bulk plasmon modes by measuring modal indices in a structure made of three pairs of silica(29nm)/gold(25nm) layers.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0703137,
  title  = {Highly Confined Optical Modes in Nanoscale Metal-Dielectric Multilayers},
  author = {Ivan Avrutsky and Ildar Salakhutdinov and Justin Elser and Viktor Podolskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0703137},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures