Polarization sensitivity of optical resonant dipole antennas

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fischer, Holger ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dipole antenna; Green's tensor method; Plasmon resonance; Polarization sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949194743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2008.08018     Document Type: Article

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