Lateral shift in photon tunneling studied by the energy streamline method

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9963-9970

  Zhang, Z M ^a   Lee, B J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HEAT TRANSFER; PHOTONS; REFRACTION;

ENERGY STREAMLINE METHODS; INCIDENCE ANGLE; PHOTON TUNNELING;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 33750379288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009963     Document Type: Article

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