Large local optical activity in fractal aggregates of nanoparticles

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1896-1903

  Drachev, Vladimir P ^a,b   Bragg, W David ^a,c   Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a   Safonov, Vladimir P ^a,d   Kim, Won Tae ^a   Ying, Z Charles ^a   Armstrong, Robert L ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a,e  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Celion Networks Inc   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER;

OPTICAL ACTIVITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037533621     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001896     Document Type: Article

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