Photonic nanojet-enabled optical data storage

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13713-13719

  Kong, Soon Cheol ^a   Sahakian, Alan ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOPHOTONICS;

ALUMINUM SUBSTRATE; COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS; HIGH DENSITY DATA STORAGE; LATERAL DIMENSION; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

ARTICLE; COMPACT DISK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPACT DISKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 51149083896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013713     Document Type: Article

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