Optical beam manipulation through two metal subwavelength slits surrounded by dielectric surface gratings

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Gai Ge ^a   Li, Xiang Yin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic surface waves; Plasmonic nanolens; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIELECTRIC GRATING; DIELECTRIC SURFACE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES; FOCAL LENGTHS; METAL SLITS; NANOLENS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL BEAMS; PLASMONIC NANOLENS; RADIATION FIELD; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 70449432942     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/11/7/075002     Document Type: Article

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