Design of metal-cladded near-field fiber probes with a dispersive body-of-revolution finite-difference time-domain method

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3429-3437

  Liu, Liu ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AZIMUTHAL HARMONIC INDEX; DRUDE MODAL; METAL-CLADDED NEAR-FIELD FIBER PROBES; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE (NSOM);

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METALS; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 20844436928     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003429     Document Type: Article

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