Extraordinary transmission through a single coaxial aperture in a thin metal film

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10896-10904

  Banzer, P ^a,b,c   Kindler, J ^b   Quabis, S ^b   Peschel, U ^b,c   Leuchs, G ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METALLIC FILMS;

CIRCULAR APERTURE; ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; OUTER DIAMETERS; POLARIZATION CONTRAST; POLARIZED ILLUMINATION; POLARIZED LIGHT; POLARIZED LIGHT BEAMS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS; TEM; THIN METAL FILMS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952716024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010896     Document Type: Article

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