Terahertz surface wave propagation and focusing on conical metal wires

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18241-18248

  Liang, Huawei ^a   Ruan, Shuangchen ^a   Zhang, Min ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; METALS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

COPPER WIRES; ENERGY CONCENTRATION; METAL WIRES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUPERFOCUSING; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ SURFACES;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 55349116077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018241     Document Type: Article

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