Near-field second-harmonic generation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 843-860

  Zayats, Anatoly V ^a   Smolyaninov, Igor I ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic field enhancement; Materials imaging; Nanoscale light sources; Near field optical microscopy; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842484825     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1350     Document Type: Review

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