Confined optical field based on surface plasmon polaritons and the interactions with nanospheres

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1096-1104

  Wang, Qingyan ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Zhang, Shulian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NANOSPHERES; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BAND-GAP STRUCTURES; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; NEAR-FIELD SOURCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 51849127466     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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