Surface-plasmon wave at the planar interface of a metal film and a structurally chiral medium

摘要

The solution of a boundary-value problem formulated for a modifiedKretschmann configuration shows that a surface-plasmon wave can be excited atthe planar interface of a sufficiently thin metal film and a nondissipativestructurally chiral medium, provided the exciting plane wave is p-polarized. Anestimate of the wavenumber of the surface-plasmon wave also emerges thereby.