Enhanced directional excitation and emission of single emitters by a nano-optical Yagi-Uda antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10858-10866

  Taminiau, Tim H ^a   Stefani, Fernando D ^a   Van Hulst, Niek F ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSENSORS;

ANGULAR EMISSION; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLANAR SENSORS; RESONANT PLASMON MODES; SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTER; YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 47249106907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010858     Document Type: Article

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