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Grating-coupled excitation of Tamm waves

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We formulated a boundary-value problem for the excitation of Tamm waves guided by the periodically corrugated interface of a homogeneous material and a rugate filter. Both partnering materials are isotropic and dielectric. After solving the problem using the rigorous coupled-wave approach, the total transmittance, total reflectance, and absorptance were calculated as functions of the angle of incidence of a plane wave that could be either p or s polarized. The excitation of a Tamm wave was inferred for every absorptance peak that is independent of the thicknesses of both partnering materials. Therefore, multiple Tamm waves can be simultaneously excited using a converging or diverging incident beam instead of an incident plane wave. Even though the absorptance peaks are very low when a Tamm wave is excited, the corresponding spikes in the total-reflectance curves are much larger and guarantee experimental detection, as well as application to optical sensing.

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Drew Patrick Pulsifer, Muhammad Faryad, and Akhlesh Lakhtakia, "Grating-coupled excitation of Tamm waves: erratum," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 177-177 (2013)
https://opg.optica.org/josab/abstract.cfm?uri=josab-30-1-177

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