Enhanced confined light transmission by single subwavelength apertures in metallic films

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 6811-6815

  Baida, Fadi Issam ^a   Van Labeke, Daniel ^a   Guizal, Brahim ^a  

^a FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CIRCULAR COAXIAL APERTURES; OPTICAL DISPERSION; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0346318460     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006811     Document Type: Article

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