Optical transmission through single subwavelength apertures using prism coupled input of laser light of annular intensity profile

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17863-17873

  Feng, L ^a   Dawson, P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CIRCULAR GRATING; PRISM-COUPLED; SINGLE SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 37549037146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017863     Document Type: Article

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