Theory of enhanced optical transmission through a metallic nano-slit surrounded with asymmetric grooves under oblique incidence

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19495-19503

  Cai, Lin ^a   Li, Guangyuan ^a   Xiao, Feng ^b   Wang, Zhonghua ^a   Xu, Anshi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ASYMMETRIC GROOVES; COUPLED MODE METHODS; ENHANCED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; FABRY-PEROT RESONANCES; FIRST-ORDER; INCIDENT LIGHT; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; PLASMONIC; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77957007515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019495     Document Type: Article

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