Impacts of geometric modifications on infrared optical responses of metallic slit arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9789-9803

  Chen, Yu Bin ^a   Chen, Jia Shiang ^a   Hsu, Pei Feng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; CAVITY GEOMETRY; CAVITY RESONANCES; METALLIC SLITS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; POYNTING VECTORS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC WAVES;

NANOMAGNETICS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66849093721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009789     Document Type: Article

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