Transmission of light through periodic arrays of sub-wavelength slits in metallic hosts

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6400-6413

  Xie, Y ^a   Zakharian, A R ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Mansuripur, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METALLIC HOSTS; POLARITONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH SLITS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33745878557     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006400     Document Type: Article

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