Universal optical transmission features in periodic and quasiperiodic hole arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9222-9238

  Pacifici, Domenico ^a   Lezec, Henri J ^a,b   Sweatlock, Luke A ^a   Walters, Robert J ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; SPECTRAL TRANSMITTANCE; SUB-WAVELENGTH HOLES; SUBWAVELENGTH HOLE ARRAYS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 45249101297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009222     Document Type: Article

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