Optical whirlpool on an absorbing metallic nanoparticle

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8372-8379

  Bashevoy, M V ^a   Fedotov, V A ^a   Zheludev, N I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VORTEX FLOW;

MIE THEORY; POWER-FLOW LINES; SPIRAL TRAJECTORY;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 26844538223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008372     Document Type: Article

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