Optical beam focusing with a metal slit array arranged along a semicircular surface and its optimization with a genetic algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Choi, Dawoon ^a   Lim, Yongjun ^a   Roh, Sookyoung ^a   Lee, Il Min ^a   Jung, Jaehoon ^b   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

LATERAL DIRECTIONS; METAL SLITS; OPTICAL BEAM FOCUSING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

METALS;

EID: 77749292267     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000A30     Document Type: Article

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