Side-coupled cavity model for surface plasmon- polariton transmission across a groove

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17837-17848

  Liu, John S Q ^a   White, Justin S ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METALS; MULTIPLEXING; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY DOMAIN; RECTANGULAR GROOVE; REFLECTION INTENSITY; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70349656954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017837     Document Type: Article

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