Ultra-broad and sharp-transition bandpass terahertz filters by hybridizing multiple resonances mode in monolithic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7580-7589

  Yeh, Ting Tso ^a   Genovesi, Simone ^b,c   Monorchio, Agostino ^b   Prati, Enrico ^c   Costa, Filippo ^b   Huang, Tsung Yu ^a   Yen, Ta Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c LABORATORIO MDM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; METAMATERIALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIPLEXING; RESONANCE;

BAND EDGE TRANSITION; BAND PASS; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; JERUSALEM; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MATERIAL RECOGNITION; MULTIPLE RESONANCES; PERIODIC METHOD OF MOMENTS; RESONANCE MODE; SLOT-RING; TERA HERTZ;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84859402042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007580     Document Type: Article

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