From waveguiding to spatial localization of THz waves within a plasmonic metallic grating

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 486-490

  Fu, Zhan ^a,b   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a,b   Ding, Yujie J ^a,b   Bartoli, Filbert J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmons; Surface waves; Terahertz (THz) radiation; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP); TERAHERTZ (THZ) RADIATION;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 41949086642     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.917032     Document Type: Article

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