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Plasmon surface polaritons that are coherently launched at an index step interfere with the evanescent waves of the driving photon field. The resulting interference pattern can be analyzed by surface-plasmon microscopy and allows for the determination of the complex wave vector of the surface mode. Different interfaces are analyzed, and the results are compared with theoretical predictions.
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Rothenhäusler et al. (1988) studied this question.
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