Subwavelength optical imaging through a silver nanorod

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Chau, Yuan Fong ^a   Tsai, Din Ping ^b   Hu, Guang Wei ^c   Shen, Lin Fang ^d   Yang, Tzong Jer ^e  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering   (China)

^e NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Image transfer; Subwavelength imaging; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

IMAGE TRANSFER; INCIDENT WAVE; OPTICAL FIELD DISTRIBUTION; SUBWAVELENGTH OPTICAL IMAGING; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NANORODS; PLASMONS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34447262127     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2715929     Document Type: Article

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