Nearly perfect absorption in intrinsically low-loss grating structures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8962-8972

  Chern, Ruey Lin ^a   Hong, Wei Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ABSORPTION MECHANISMS; ANTIBONDING; CAVITY RESONANCES; COMPLEX POLES; DIELECTRIC SLABS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; EXTREME VALUE; GRATING STRUCTURES; GUIDED WAVE; LONG RANGE; LOW LOSS; LOW-LOSS MEDIUM; METALLIC GRATINGS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; POWER-LOSSES; RESONANCE FIELD; RESONANCE MECHANISM; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION;

ARTICLE; 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; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79955418694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008962     Document Type: Article

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