Holes with very acute angles: A new paradigm of extraordinary optical transmission through strongly localized modes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23691-23697

  Rodrigo, Sergio G ^a   Mahboub, O ^b   Degiron, A ^c   Genet, Cyriaque ^b   Garcia Vidal F J ^d   Martin Moreno L ^a   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^b  

^a Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; PEAK POSITION; PERFECT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR; PLASMON-POLARITONS; RED-SHIFTED; STRONGLY LOCALIZED MODES; SUBMICROMETERS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78149449676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023691     Document Type: Article

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