Extraordinary grating-coupled microwave transmission through a subwavelength annular aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1666-1671

  Caglayan, Humeyra ^a   Bulu, Irfan ^a   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FIBER OPTICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

ANNULAR APERTURE; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PLASMONS (SP);

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 17444385299     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001666     Document Type: Article

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