Bidirectional surface wave splitters excited by a cylindrical wire

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5260-5267

  Zhou, Yong Jin ^a   Jiang, Quan ^a   Cui, Tie Jun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRE;

COUPLING MECHANISM; GRATING STRUCTURES; INTEGRAL TIME; NEW STRUCTURES; SIMULATED RESULTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE GRATING; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 79952615741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005260     Document Type: Article

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