Near-field optical transmittance of metal particle chain waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 6141-6146

  Girard, Christian ^a   Quidant, Romain ^b  

^a CEMES CNRS   (France)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED DEVICES; NEAR-FIELD TRANSMITTANCES; PARTICLE CHAIN WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE (SNOM);

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 11244319440     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006141     Document Type: Article

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