Frequency-dependent radiation patterns emitted by THz plasmons on finite length cylindrical metal wires

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 8772-8778

  Deibel, Jason A ^a   Berndsen, Nicholas ^a   Wang, Kanglin ^a   Mittleman, Daniel M ^a   Van Der Valk, Nick C J ^b   Planken, Paul C M ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENT DIFFRACTION; PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748945720     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008772     Document Type: Article

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