THz surface plasmon modes on planar Goubau lines

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8466-8471

  Gacemi, D ^a   Mangeney, J ^a   Laurtent, T ^a   Lampin, J F ^b   Akalin, T ^b   Blary, K ^b   Degiron, A ^a   Crozat, P ^a   Meng, F ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; GOUBAU LINE; LINEAR LAW; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; TERAHERTZ SURFACES; THZ PULSE; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSVERSE CONFINEMENT;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84860113500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008466     Document Type: Review

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