Optical surface waves in periodic layered media
- 15 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 32 (2) , 104-105
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89953
Abstract
A generalized analysis of wave propagation in periodic layered media is applied to the special case of optical surface waves. These waves, confined to the interface between a periodic layered medium and a homogeneous medium, are formally analogous to electronic surface states in crystals. Single‐mode surface‐wave propagation along the surface of a GaAs‐AlGaAs multilayer stack (grown by molecular‐beam epitaxy) has been observed experimentally.Keywords
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