Asymmetrical excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on blazed gratings at normal incidence
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Benfeng Bai,1,* Xiangfeng Meng,1,2 Janne Laukkanen,1 Tristan Sfez,3 Libo Yu,3 Wataru Nakagawa,4 Hans Peter Herzig,3 Lifeng Li,2 and Jari Turunen1 1Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland 2Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 3Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Microengineering (IMT-OPT), Breguet 2, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State University, P.O. Box 173780, Bozeman, Montana 59717-3780, USA Received 20 April 2009; revised manuscript received 12 June 2009; published 9 July 2009
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