Resonance excitation and light concentration in sets of dielectric nanocylinders in front of a subwavelength aperture. Effects on extraordinary transmission

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6740-6754

  Valdivia Valero, F J ^a   Nieto Vesperinas, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BONDING STATE; CONCENTRATION OF; EIGEN MODES; ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE-ELEMENTS METHOD; GEOMETRY PARAMETER; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; METALLIC SLAB; NANOCYLINDERS; PERIODIC CORRUGATION; RESONANCE EXCITATION; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; TRANSMITTED INTENSITIES; WAVE-GUIDING; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950235482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006740     Document Type: Article

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