Microcavity enhanced optical absorption in subwavelength slits

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26850-26858

  Min, Changjun ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Veronis, Georgios ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; INCIDENT LIGHT; MICROCAVITY STRUCTURES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; PLANE WAVE; PLASMONIC; RESONANT FIELDS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBMICRON STRUCTURES; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS;

MICROCAVITIES;

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

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555197244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026850     Document Type: Article

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