Airy beam excitation using a subwavelength metallic slit array

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1440-1442

  Choi, Dawoon ^a   Lim, Yongjun ^a   Lee, Il Min ^a   Roh, Sookyoung ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Airy beam; metal insulator metal waveguide; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

AIRY BEAM; AIRY WAVES; METAL INSULATOR METALS; METALLIC SLITS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PACKET-BASED; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS;

OPTICS;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 84864604531     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2206020     Document Type: Article

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