Bloch surface waves in ultrathin waveguides: near-field investigation of mode polarization and propagation
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Tristan Sfez,* Emiliano Descrovi, Libo Yu, Daniele Brunazzo, Marzia Quaglio, Lorenzo Dominici, Wataru Nakagawa, Francesco Michelotti, Fabrizio Giorgis, Olivier J. F. Martin, and Hans Peter Herzig Optics & Photonics Technology Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-STI-OPT, rue A.-L. Breguet 2, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland Materials and Microsystems Laboratory Lab, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL-STI-NAM, ELG Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Center for Human Space Robotics of IIT—Italian Institute of Technology, Corso Trento 21, 10129 Torino, Italy Dipartimento di Energetica, SAPIENZA, Università di Roma and CNISM, via A. Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma, Italy Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University, P.O. Box 173780, Bozeman, Montana 59717-3780, USA *Corresponding author: [email protected]
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