Beam shaping with nanooptical devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7008, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pniewski, Jacek ^a   Antosiewicz, Tomasz J ^a   Saj, Wladyslaw M ^a   Szoplik, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Beaming light; Corrugated SNOM tip; Nanooptics; Photonics; Plasmon waveguides; Plasmonics; Scanning near field optical microscope; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; MICROSCOPES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; POLARIMETERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAMING LIGHT; CORRUGATED SNOM TIPS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; SURFACE-PLASMON POLARITONS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 43949127429     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.797099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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