Enhanced transmission of light through a circularly structured aperture

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 6898-6904

  Popov, Evgeny ^a   Nevière, Michel ^a   Fehrembach, Anne Laure ^a   Bonod, Nicolas ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CEA CESTA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VECTORS;

CIRCULAR APERTURE; LIGHT DIFFRACTION; STRUCTURED APERTURE; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 27944473672     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006898     Document Type: Article

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