Light focusing by the unique dielectric nano waveguide array

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 17136-17143

  Zhao, Lihua ^a   Li, Yudong ^a   Qi, Jiwei ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^a   Sun, Qian ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DECAY LENGTH; FOCAL LENGTHS; INCIDENT LIGHT; RADIATION MODE; SIMULATED RESULTS; TE MODE; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 70349198010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017136     Document Type: Article

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