Theory of electromagnetic wave transmission through metallic gratings of subwavelength slits

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Garcia, N ^a   Nieto Vesperinas, M ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extraordinary optical transmission; Fabry Perot resonances; Grating diffraction; Nanoslits; Plasmons; Rayleigh anomalies

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; RAYLEIGH FADING; SLITTING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; NANOSLITS; RAYLEIGH ANOMALIES; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34248168872     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/5/012     Document Type: Article

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