Planar plasmonic terahertz guided-wave devices

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6216-6226

  Zhu, Wenqi ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERMITTIVITY; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

PERFORATED FILMS; PLANAR THZ WAVEGUIDES; RECTANGULAR APERTURES; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS;

ELECTRICITY; OPTICS;

EID: 43049091248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006216     Document Type: Article

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