Transmission enhancement through deep subwavelength apertures using connected split ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3952-3966

  Ates, Damla ^a   Cakmak, Atilla Ozgur ^a   Colak, Evrim ^a   Zhao, Rongkuo ^b,c   Soukoulis, C M ^b,d   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; HIGH TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77149125901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003952     Document Type: Article

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