Application of surface polariton coupling between nano recording marks to optical data storage

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13885-13892

  Chiu, Kuo Pin ^a,b   Lai, Kuei Fu ^a,b   Tsai, Din Ping ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; COUPLING CHARACTERISTIC; COUPLING EFFECT; DIFFERENT SHAPES; RECORDING MARKS; SURFACE POLARITONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 51149108921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013885     Document Type: Article

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