Propagation characteristics of silver and tungsten subwavelength annular aperture generated sub-micron non-diffraction beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5330-5339

  Cheng, Tsung Dar ^a   Lin, Ding Zheng ^a   Yeh, Jyi Tyan ^c   Liu, Jonq Min ^c   Yeh, Chau Shioung ^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

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILVER; TUNGSTEN;

ANNULAR APERTURES; DIFFRACTION BEAMS; FAR-FIELD PROPAGATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION MODE; TRANSMITTED LIGHT;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

NANOMATERIAL; SILVER; TUNGSTEN;

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

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

EID: 65249132304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005330     Document Type: Article

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