Far-field contribution of evanescent modes to the electromagnetic Green tensor

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2583-2584

  Shchegrov, Andrei V ^a   Scott Carney, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 5244315421     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.16.002583     Document Type: Article

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