Broadband transparency achieved with the stacked metallic multi-layers perforated with coaxial annular apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21425-21431

  Wei, Zeyong ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Fan, Yuancheng ^a   Yu, Xing ^a   Li, Hongqiang ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ANNULAR APERTURES; BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; METALLIC LAYERS; MICROWAVE REGIME; MODAL EXPANSION METHOD; MULTI-LAYERED SYSTEMS; RESONANCE MODE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 80054958135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021425     Document Type: Article

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