Controllable coherent perfect absorption in a composite film

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1330-1336

  Dutta Gupta, Shourya ^a   Martin, O J F ^a   Gupta, S Dutta ^b   Agarwal, G S ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; METAL-DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

GOLD; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84855932780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001330     Document Type: Article

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