Optical tunneling: A fingerprint of the lack of photon localizability

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 206-217

  Keller, Ole ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL TUNNELING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035589285     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000206     Document Type: Article

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