Broadband Extraordinary Transmission in a single sub-wavelength aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16946-16954

  Tang, Wenxuan ^a   Hao, Yang ^a   Medina, Francisco ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FREQUENCY SENSITIVITY; NEW DEVICES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77955643958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016946     Document Type: Article

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