The role of short and long range surface plasmons for plasmonic focusing applications

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14270-14280

  Yanai, Avner ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FOCUSING; GEOMETRY;

DEPTH OF FOCUS; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; PLASMONIC LENS; RADIALLY POLARIZED; RANGE MODE; SPOT SIZES; TRADE OFF;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349137777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014270     Document Type: Article

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