Controlling the transmission resonance lineshape of a single subwavelength aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 763-769

  Cao, Hua ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES;

APERTURES; SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE;

RESONANCE;

EID: 14744289214     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000763     Document Type: Article

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