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Published January 15, 1978 | public
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Optical surface waves in periodic layered media

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.

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Copyright © 1978 American Institute of Physics. (Received 24 June 1977; accepted for publication 12 October 1977) Work supported by the Office of Naval Research and by the National Science Foundation Optical Communication Program.

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