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When an electromagnetic wave propagates through a condensed medium, its properties are modified by the coupling of the electromagnetic wave to the elementary excitations of the medium. The coupled excitation is frequently referred to as a polariton and consists of a photon coupled to a plasmon, optical phonon, magnon, etc. An electromagnetic surface wave or surface polariton is a polariton in which the electromagnetic field is localized at the surface of the medium [1]. In the present discussion we restrict ourselves to planar surfaces.
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Wallis, R.F. (1986). Introduction to Electromagnetic Surface Waves. In: Wallis, R.F., Stegeman, G.I., Tamir, T. (eds) Electromagnetic Surface Excitations. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82715-0_1
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