Full Photonic Band Gap for Surface Modes in the Visible
- 23 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (13), 2670-2673
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.2670
Abstract
We report the first observation of a full photonic band gap for surface modes. An experimental study has been made of the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on a silver surface that is textured with a hexagonal array of dots with a periodicity of 300 nm. We find that propagation is prohibited in all directions for modes with energies between 1.91 and 2.00 eV.Keywords
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