“…Previous studies on the modes of structures involving anisotropic media include [11±13] (at a single interface), [14] (the same con®guration as studied here, except that the optic axis of the crystal belongs to the interface, thus excluding double resonances), [15,16] (guided waves in anisotropic media), [17] (two ®lms), [18] (the same structure as considered here, but the study therein does not include double excitations), [19] (®rst observation of enhanced optical secondharmonic generation due to excitation of long-range surface plasmons at a multilayer structure), [20] (multilayered structure, but for a particular orientation of the principal dielectric tensor axes of the anisotropic layer), [21,22] (guided modes in a liquid-crystal layer and surface plasmon resonance in a metal-clad liquid-crystal waveguide respectively), [23,24] (excitation of surface modes at a single uniaxial crystal±metal interface) and [25±28] (examples of excitation at anisotropic gratings). Here we obtain the complex propagation constants of the eigenmodes supported by the uniaxial crystal±metal±isotropic medium ®lm and show the existence of a set of critical ®lm parameters for which the excitation is linked to zeros of the re¯ected power.…”