A theoretical re-examination of giant transmission of light through a metallic nano-slit surrounded with periodic grooves

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13995-14000

  Cui, Yanxia ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DEEP GROOVE; INCIDENT WAVES; INPUT SURFACES; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PERIODIC GROOVES; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349157543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013995     Document Type: Article

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