Ultra-high enhancement of the field concentration in split ring resonators by azimuthally polarized excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25454-25464

  Scheuer, Jacob ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; RESONATORS;

AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR POLARIZED ILLUMINATION; POLARIZED ILLUMINATION; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SPLIT-RING RESONATORS (SRR);

RING GAGES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 82955181007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025454     Document Type: Article

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