Trapping mid-infrared rays in a lossy film with the Berreman mode, epsilon near zero mode, and magnetic polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 20771-20785

  Chen, Yu Bin ^a   Chiu, Feng Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; INFRARED RADIATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS;

CIRCUIT MODELING; ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EPSILON-NEAR ZEROS; MAGNETIC POLARITONS; MID INFRARED (MID IR); OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC WAVES;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84884551910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.020771     Document Type: Article

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