The role of leaky plasmon waves in the directive beaming of light through a subwavelength aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21271-21281

  Jackson, D R ^a   Chen, J ^a   Qiang, R ^a   Capolino, F ^b   Oliner, A A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METALLIC FILMS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; DESIGN INFORMATION; LEAKY WAVES; PLASMON WAVES; RADIATION MECHANISM; SILVER FILM; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

SILVER;

EID: 58149125502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021271     Document Type: Article

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