Giant resonance absorption in ultra-thin metamaterial periodic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3693-3702

  Yanai, Avner ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^b   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

ALTERNATING LAYERS; AT RESONANCE; CRITICAL COUPLING CONDITION; FABRY PEROT MODES; GIANT RESONANCES; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; LAYER THICKNESS; LIMITING CASE; NARROW RESONANCES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; PERIODIC LAYERS; PLANE WAVE; RAYLEIGH ANOMALIES; ULTRA-THIN; ZERO-PHASE;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 84857340435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003693     Document Type: Article

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