https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00757-2
Regular Article
Excitation of surface plasmon–polariton waves at the interface of a metal and an isotropic chiral material in the prism-coupled configurations
1
Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2
Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 54792, Lahore, Pakistan
Received:
5
February
2020
Accepted:
5
September
2020
Published online:
14
September
2020
Excitation of surface plasmon–polariton (SPP) waves guided by the planar interface of a metal and an isotropic chiral material was investigated in the prism-coupled configurations. The characteristics of the SPP waves in both the Turbadar–Kretschmann–Raether configuration and the Turbadar–Otto configuration were studied. The results for SPP-wave excitation in the latter configuration were easily discernible than the former. The associated canonical boundary-value problem was numerically solved for the confirmation of the results of the prism-coupled configurations. It was seen that the SPP waves can exist only if the chirality pseudo-scalar has magnitude that is less than a threshold value.
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