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Inside Back Cover: Identifi cation and control of multiple leaky plasmon modes in silver nanowires (Laser Photonics Rev. 10(2)/2016)
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201670027
Subject(s) - photonics , plasmon , excited state , laser , substrate (aquarium) , cover (algebra) , superposition principle , optoelectronics , optics , physics , materials science , nanotechnology , atomic physics , engineering , mechanical engineering , oceanography , quantum mechanics , geology
Excited by a laser focused at one end of a silver nanowire (NW) on a silica substrate, two leaky plasmon modes propagate along the NW and leak into the substrate. In the figure, the cross sections of these two modes are inserted below the NW. As the distance away from the excited spot increases, linear superposition of these two leaky plasmon modes with a wave‐vector difference leads to a beating pattern in intensity. In this figure, it is depicted as an orange beating pattern with intensity decreasing along the NW to the other end. (Picture: Hangbo Yang et al., 10.1002/lpor.201500192 pp. 278–286, in this issue)