Second-harmonic emission from sub-wavelength apertures: Effects of aperture symmetry and lattice arrangement

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13894-13906

  Xu, T ^a   Jiao, X ^a   Zhang, G P ^b   Blair, S ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SCATTERING;

APERTURE SYMMETRY; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION (EOT); LATTICE ARRANGEMENT; SECOND HARMONIC EMISSION;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 35349005323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013894     Document Type: Article

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