Optical nanofocusing on tapered metallic waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-37

  Issa, Nader A ^a   Guckenberger, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Field enhancement; Focus; Nano optics; Nanofocus; Near field; Taper; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847638807     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-006-9022-7     Document Type: Article

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