Lattice modes mediate radiative coupling in metamaterial arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 22108-22113

  Bitzer, Andreas ^a,b   Wallauer, Jan ^a   Helm, Hanspeter ^a   Merbold, Hannes ^b   Feurer, Thomas ^b   Walther, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METAMATERIALS;

AVOIDED CROSSINGS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; LATTICE PERIODICITY; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; RADIATIVE COUPLING; RESONANT RESPONSE; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 72449208707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022108     Document Type: Article

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