Field enhancement in metallic subwavelength aperture arrays probed by erbium upconversion luminescence

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14586-14598

  Verhagen, Ewold ^a   Kuipers, L ^a   Polman, Albert ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ANNULAR APERTURE ARRAYS; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANO-STRUCTURED METAL FILMS; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SUBWAVELENGTH HOLE ARRAYS; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE;

LIGHT;

EID: 69049090887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014586     Document Type: Article

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