Dual-wavelength light beaming from a metal nanoslit flanked by dielectric gratings

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1356-1361

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Wang, Guo Ping ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL STORAGE; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA STORAGE; DIELECTRIC GRATING; DUAL WAVELENGTH; FREQUENCY WINDOWS; GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE; METAL-DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; TWO WAVELENGTH;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 55049138058     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001356     Document Type: Article

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