Comment on "Large negative lateral shifts from the Kretschmann-Raether configuration with left-handed materials" Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 221102, 2005

Antoine Moreau, Didier Felbacq

The negative shifts seen by Wang and Zhu are not due to the excitation of surface plasmons but to leaky modes of the slab propagating backward. Provided the characteristics of the…