Creation of strongly localized and strongly enhanced optical near-field on metallic probe-tip with surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 832-846

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a   Sugiyama, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

I-SHAPED APERTURE; MINIMUM RESIDUAL METHOD; PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON (SPP);

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 31144455978     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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