Femtosecond phase control of spatial localization of the optical near-field in a metal nanoslit array

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12075-12083

  Choi, SooBong ^a   Park, Doojae ^a   Lienau, C ^b   Jeong, Mun Seok ^c   Byeon, Clare C ^c   Ko, Do Kyeong ^c   Kim, D S ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TIME DELAY;

MODAL EXPANSION; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; NEAR-FIELD IMAGES; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL COMPOSITION; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SURFACE IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITION;

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 49149111939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012075     Document Type: Article

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