Creation and annihilation of phase singularities near a sub-wavelength slit

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-380

  Schouten, Hugo F ^a   Visser, Taco D ^a   Gbur, Greg ^a   Lenstra, Daan ^a   Blok, Hans ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

APERTURE DIFFRACTION; PHASE SINGULARITIES; POWER FLOW; SINGULAR OPTICS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0346672528     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000371     Document Type: Article

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