Beam Propagation Method Calculating Attenuated Total Reflection Spectra to Excite Hybridized Surface Plasmon Polaritons
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Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China
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Department of Physics, Anhui University of Science & Technology, 168 Shungeng Road,Huainan 232001, China
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Academic Editor: Gururaj V. Naik
Materials 2015, 8(8), 5048-5059; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma8085048
Received: 31 March 2015 / Revised: 12 June 2015 / Accepted: 3 August 2015 / Published: 7 August 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plasmonic Materials)
Using the beam propagation method, an analytical expression of the reflection spectra of a Kretschmann configuration is derived in order to excite hybridized surface plasmonic polaritons (HSPPs). In this configuration, the cladding is a uniaxial dielectric with the optical axis parallel to the interface. The validity of the analytical expression is confirmed by a finite-difference time-domain algorithm and a reported experimental result, respectively. Based on this expression, the properties and the conditions for excitation of the HSPPs are discussed in detail, with regard to the strongly anisotropic cladding and the weakly anisotropic cladding.
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Keywords:
beam propagation method; attenuated total reflection spectrum; hybridized surface plasmon polaritons
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Zhou, H.; Zhang, X.; Wang, Y.; Song, Y. Beam Propagation Method Calculating Attenuated Total Reflection Spectra to Excite Hybridized Surface Plasmon Polaritons. Materials 2015, 8, 5048-5059.
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