Surface plasmon polariton beam focusing with parabolic nanoparticle chains

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 6576-6582

  Radko, Ilya P ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Evlyukhin, Andrey B ^b   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VLADIMIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOPARTICLES; THIN FILMS; WAVELENGTH;

GREEN'S TENSOR FORMALISM; LEAKAGE RADIATION MICROSCOPY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 34249701861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006576     Document Type: Article

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