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Surface-plasmon wave at the planar interface of a metal film and a structurally chiral medium

Optics 2007-12-07 v1 Classical Physics

Abstract

The solution of a boundary-value problem formulated for a modified Kretschmann configuration shows that a surface-plasmon wave can be excited at the planar interface of a sufficiently thin metal film and a nondissipative structurally chiral medium, provided the exciting plane wave is p-polarized. An estimate of the wavenumber of the surface-plasmon wave also emerges thereby.

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@article{arxiv.0706.1365,
  title  = {Surface-plasmon wave at the planar interface of a metal film and a structurally chiral medium},
  author = {Akhlesh Lakhtakia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1365},
  year   = {2007}
}