Time-domain analysis of enhanced transmission through a single subwavelength aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3535-3542

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

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

ANNULAR GROOVES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES; WAVEFORMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 21244474385     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003535     Document Type: Article

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