Near-field imaging of Bloch surface waves on silicon nitride one-dimensional photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5453-5464

  Descrovi, Emiliano ^a   Sfez, Tristan ^b   Dominici, Lorenzo ^c   Nakagawa, Wataru ^b   Michelotti, Francesco ^c   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^a   Herzig, Hans Peter ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MULTILAYERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON NITRIDE;

BLOCH SURFACE WAVES; NEAR-FIELD IMAGING;

SURFACE WAVES;

SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 42149135456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005453     Document Type: Article

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