Ultrathin broadband nearly perfect absorber with symmetrical coherent illumination

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2246-2254

  Pu, Mingbo ^a   Feng, Qin ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Ma, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETRY;

ABSORPTANCE; BROADBAND APPLICATIONS; COHERENT CONTROL; COHERENT ILLUMINATION; INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS; NARROW BANDS; NARROW BANDWIDTH; OPERATION FREQUENCY; PERFECT ABSORBER; SILICON SLABS; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRATHIN SILICON;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863012619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002246     Document Type: Article

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