Effect of subwavelength annular aperture diameter on the nondiffracting region of generated Bessel beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2707-2713

  Yu, H Yan ^a   Lin, Ding Zheng ^a   Huang, Long Sun ^a   Lee, Chih Kung ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SUBSTRATES;

ANNULAR APERTURES; DEPTH OF FOCUS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FOCAL LENGTHS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; LIFT-OFF PROCESS; NONDIFFRACTING; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 60549093418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002707     Document Type: Article

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