Fluorescence near metal tips: The roles of energy transfer and surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12131-12144

  Issa, Nader A ^a   Guckenberger, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MOLECULAR EXCITATION; RADIATIVE DAMPING; RADIATIVE RATE;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 34648834906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012131     Document Type: Article

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