Nonresonant broadband funneling of light via ultrasubwavelength channels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Subramania, G ^a,c   Foteinopoulou, S ^b   Brener, I ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; FUNCTIONAL POSSIBILITIES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; NANO-STRUCTURED METAL FILMS; NONRESONANT; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL POWER; QUASI-STATIC; STRUCTURAL SURFACES; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80053970436     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.163902     Document Type: Article

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