Single molecule fluorescence in rectangular nano-apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7035-7044

  Wenger, Jérôme ^a   Lenne, Pierre François ^a   Popov, Evgueni ^a   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Dintinger, José ^b   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; METALLIC FILMS; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EVANESCENT EXCITATION; EXCITATION FIELD; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; RECTANGULAR NANO-APERTURES;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 24944544442     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007035     Document Type: Article

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