Field enhancement and extraordinary optical transmission by tapered periodic slits in gold films

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Søndergaard, Thomas ^b   Novikov, Sergey M ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Devaux, Eloïse ^c   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTERPROPAGATING; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FIELD INTENSITY; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; GOLD FILM; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; METAL SLITS; NANO-FOCUSING; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLASMONIC; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SCANNING OPTICAL; SLIT ARRAY; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; TAPER ANGLES; TWO-PHOTON LUMINESCENCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GOLD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 79959645762     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/063029     Document Type: Article

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