Localized surface plasmon microscope with an illumination system employing a radially polarized zeroth-order Bessel beam

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1180-1182

  Watanabe, Kouyou ^a   Terakado, Goro ^a   Kano, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; MICROSCOPES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ILLUMINATION SYSTEM; IMAGING PRINCIPLE; KRETSCHMANN CONFIGURATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION LIMIT; RADIALLY POLARIZED; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 66349127161     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.001180     Document Type: Article

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