Characterization of light collection through a subwavelength aperture from a point source

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10410-10425

  Heng, Xin ^a   Cui, Xiquan ^a   Knapp, David W ^b   Wu, Jigang ^a   Yaqoob, Zahid ^a   McDowell, Emily J ^c   Psaltis, Demetri ^a   Yang, Changhuei ^a,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

APERTURE SIZE; LIGHT COLLECTION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; TRANSMISSION GEOMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 33750698233     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010410     Document Type: Article

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