Influence of the dielectric substrate on the terahertz electric near-field of a hole in a metal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17412-17425

  Guestin, L ^a   Adam, A J L ^a   Knab, J R ^a   Nagel, M ^b   Planken, P C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; METAL LAYER; NEAR FIELD SPECTRA; NEAR FIELDS; TERA HERTZ; THIN METAL LAYERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL FIELD;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70349654121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017412     Document Type: Article

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