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International Journal of Optics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 152937, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/152937
Research Article

Surface Plasmon Singularities

Gabriel Martínez-Niconoff,1 P. Martinez-Vara,2 G. Diaz-Gonzalez,1 J. Silva-Barranco,1 and A. Carbajal-Domínguez3

1Departamento de Óptica, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Apdo. Postal 51 y 216, Tonantzintla, PUE, Mexico
2Facultad de Ingeniería, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Publa, PUE, Mexico
3Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, (UJAT), Cunduacán, Tab, Mexico

Received 5 April 2012; Revised 12 June 2012; Accepted 13 June 2012

Academic Editor: Zhaolin Lu

Copyright © 2012 Gabriel Martínez-Niconoff et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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