Anomalous optical absorption in metallic gratings with subwavelength slits

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19510-19521

  Chern, Ruey Lin ^a   Chen, Yu Tang ^b   Lin, Hoang Yan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; POLARIZATION;

ABSORBANCES; ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION; COMPOUND GRATING; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FIELD PATTERNS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; INCIDENT ANGLES; METALLIC GRATINGS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TM POLARIZATION; TRAPPED MODES;

ABSORPTION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77956999459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019510     Document Type: Article

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