Diffraction characteristics of concentric circular metal grating operating at terahertz regime

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 898-905

  Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Yu, Siu Fung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Circular metal grating; Coupled wave model; Diffraction waves; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT RATE; DIFFRACTION CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFRACTION WAVES; DUTY CYCLES; FLOQUET WAVES; HIGH-ORDER; INCIDENT ANGLES; INFINITE SERIES; METAL GRATING; REFLECTION SPECTRA; RIGOROUS COUPLED-WAVE; SPATIAL HARMONIC; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC WAVES; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE; WAVE MODELS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; METALS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVE EQUATIONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77949386565     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2040805     Document Type: Article

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