A Simulation of Near-Field Optics: Optical Waves Through an Aperture in 3D Thick Metallic Screen by Volume Integral Equation Method

IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-238

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Yan, Mengyun ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aperture in metallic screen; near field optics; three dimensional simulation; volume integral equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442284147     PISSN: 03854205     EISSN: 13475533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejfms.123.233     Document Type: Article

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