Nanofocusing of radially polarized light with dielectric-metal-dielectric probe

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9191-9196

  Antosiewicz, Tomasz J ^a   Wrobel, Piotr ^a   Szoplik, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BODY OF REVOLUTION; DIELECTRIC CLADDING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; LAGUERRE GAUSS BEAMS; METAL DIELECTRICS; NANO-FOCUSING; RADIALLY POLARIZED; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

METAL;

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

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66449127931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009191     Document Type: Article

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