Electric field enhancing properties of the V-shaped optical resonant antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16852-16859

  Yang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Jiasen ^a   Wu, Xiaofei ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL RESONANT ANTENNAS; RADIATION DIRECTIVITY; V-SHAPED ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 37149021022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.15.016852     Document Type: Article

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