Superfocusing and Light Confinement by Surface Plasmon Excitation Through Radially Polarized Beam

Plasmonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-59

  Baida, F I ^a   Belkhir, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Antenna effect; Diffraction; Guide; Microscope probe; Nanofocus; Nanophotonics; Near field; Surface plasmon; Taper

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349090987     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-008-9076-9     Document Type: Article

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