Design tips of nanoapertures with strong field enhancement and proposal of novel L-shaped aperture

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Xu, Jiying ^a   Xu, Tiejun ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Tian, Qian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Field enhancement; Finite difference time domain method; Nanoaperture; Near field optics

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

APERTURE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; L SHAPED APERTURE; NANOAPERTURES; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; STRONG FIELD ENHANCEMENT;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 14544295352     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1825446     Document Type: Article

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