Active control and spatial mapping of mid-infrared propagating surface plasmons

Surface waves on metal films with subwavelength features and tunable optical resonances are excited with a quantum cascade laser. The resulting transmission through, and propagation on, the metal/dielectric interface is measured, both spectrally and spatially.

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