Analysis of surface plasmon interference pattern formed by optical vortex beams

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18451-18456

  Tan, P S ^a   Yuan, X C ^b   Lin, J ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Burge, R E ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VORTEX FLOW;

ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAM; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE; SUB-DIFFRACTION IMAGING; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 55349110309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018451     Document Type: Article

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