Analytic coherent control of plasmon propagation in nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14235-14259

  Tuchscherer, Philip ^a   Rewitz, Christian ^a   Voronine, Dmitri V ^a   De Abajo, F Javier García ^b   Pfeiffer, Walter ^c   Brixner, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

NONLINEAR SIGNALS; OPTICAL COHERENT CONTROL; ORIENTATION ANGLES; PLASMON PROPAGATION; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PULSE POLARIZATION; SPATIAL POSITIONS; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS;

LASER PULSES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349146365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014235     Document Type: Article

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