Highly selective terahertz bandpass filters based on trapped mode excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18590-18595

  Paul, Oliver ^a   Beigang, René ^a,b   Rahm, Marco ^a,b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

AMPLITUDE TRANSMISSION; FIELD POLARIZATION; FLEXIBLE MEMBRANES; FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; HIGH TRANSMISSION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 70350334744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018590     Document Type: Article

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