Omnidirectional, polarization-insensitive and broadband thin absorber in the terahertz regime

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 498-504

  Ye, Yu Qian ^a,c   Jin, Yi ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DIELECTRIC LAYER; GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONS; INCIDENT LIGHT; MAGNETIC POLARITONS; POLARITONS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; STRUCTURAL LAYERS; TERA HERTZ; THIN ABSORBERS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77949300958     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000498     Document Type: Article

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