A Study of Near-field Aperture Geometry Effects on Very Small Aperture Lasers (VSAL)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5069, Issue , 2003, Pages 312-318

  Chen, Fang ^a   Itagi, Amit ^a   Stebounova, Larissa ^b   Bain, J A ^a   Stancil, D D ^a   Walker, G C ^b   Schlesinger, T E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture Geometry; Apertureless NSOM; Far field; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Focused ion beam (FIB); Nano aperture; Near field; Power throughput; Very small aperture laser (VSAL)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RECORDING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

VERY SMALL APERTURE LASERS (VSAL);

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0242443352     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.532753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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