Resonant photon tunneling via surface plasmon polaritons through one-dimensional metal-dielectric metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9942-9950

  Tomita, Satoshi ^a   Yokoyama, Takashi ^a   Yanagi, Hisao ^a   Wood, Ben ^b   Pendry, John B ^b   Fujii, Minoru ^c   Hayashi, Shinji ^c  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALTERNATING LAYERS; EVANESCENT LIGHT; METAL DIELECTRICS; RESONANT-PHOTON TUNNELING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUPERLENSES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVE NUMBERS;

PHOTONS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 46149115417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009942     Document Type: Article

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