Quasi-cylindrical wave contribution in experiments on extraordinary optical transmission

Nature

Volumn 492, Issue 7429, 2012, Pages 411-414

  Van Beijnum, Frerik ^a   Rétif, Chris ^b   Smiet, Chris B ^a   Liu, Haitao ^c   Lalanne, Philippe ^d   Van Exter, Martin P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSMITTANCE; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; LIGHT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI CYLINDRICAL WAVE;

EID: 84871442382     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11669     Document Type: Article

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