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Surface plasmons at work?

Further analysis of controversial data questioning the role of surface plasmons in extraordinary optical transmission reasserts the conventional view, and suggests there is still much to be done to understand the details of this phenomenon.

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Figure 1: Standing wave pattern between two parallel slits in a gold film caused by interfering surface plasmons, excited by an optical field incident from below.

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Visser, T. Surface plasmons at work?. Nature Phys 2, 509–510 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys372

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