Extraordinary transmission through 1,2 and 3 holes in a perfect conductor, modelled by a mode expansion technique

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2552-2572

  Brok, J M ^a   Urbach, H P ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES; FABRY-PEROT EFFECT; MODE EXPANSION; SURFACE PLASMON;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS;

EID: 33645528801     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002552     Document Type: Article

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26. 4 now does not have anything to do with the propagation direction, for consistency, we stick to this notation.
27. zz) increase exponentially with z , which is not very convenient for numerical implementation.
28. The interaction integral also has some other properties that can save a lot of computation time. These properties are outside the scope of this paper.
29. This routine is a multi-dimensional adaptive quadrature over a hyper-rectangle. For a description, see the internet link: http://www.nag.com/ nagware/mt/doc/d01fcf.html.