Enhanced optical transmission of a continuous metal film with double metal cylinder arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1157-1160

  Liu, Zhengqi ^a,b   Liu, Guiqiang ^a   Huang, Kuan ^a   Chen, Yuanhao ^a   Hu, Ying ^a   Zhang, Xiangnan ^a   Cai, Zhengjie ^a  

^a JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

continuous metal film; enhanced transmission; near field interaction; subwavelength plasmonic array; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; METAL FILM; NEAR FIELD INTERACTIONS; PLASMONIC ARRAYS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 84878788044     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2261482     Document Type: Article

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