Effective surface plasmon polaritons on the metal wire with arrays of subwavelength grooves

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 13021-13029

  Chen, Yongyao ^a   Song, Zhenming ^a   Li, Yanfeng ^a   Hu, Minglie ^a   Xing, Qirong ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^a   Chai, Lu ^a   Wang, Ching Yue ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WIRE;

DIELECTRIC COATING; METAL WIRES; POLARITONS; SUBWAVELENGTH GROOVES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC (TM) WAVES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33845763325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.013021     Document Type: Article

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42. Note: After submitting our manuscript to Optics Express on 09/18/2006, we found that S.A. Maier et al. proposed basically the same structure but focusing on different aspects other than those in our manuscript. We think that the excellent work proposed by S. A. Maier et al. will open up possibilities to important applications in the THz optical research, and it is very necessary to incorporate their work into our paper in order to enrich our contents and emphasize the potential applications of this metallic structure in the optical research.