Focusing and directing of surface plasmon polaritons by curved chains of nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16667-16680

  Evlyukhin, A B ^a   Bozhevolnyi, S I ^b   Stepanov, A L ^c,d   Kiyan, R ^d   Reinhardt, C ^d   Passinger, S ^d   Chichkov, B N ^d  

^a VLADIMIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ZAVOISKY PHYSICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LASER BEAMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TENSORS;

GREEN'S TENSOR FORMALISM; INCIDENT LIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP);

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 37149015103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016667     Document Type: Article

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