Direct imaging of tunneling from a potential well

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19160-19165

  Tomes, Mathew ^a   Váhala, Kerry J ^b   Carmon, Tal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DIRECT IMAGING; LIGHT INTENSITY; POTENTIAL WELLS; REFERENCE WAVES; TUNNELING REGION;

PHASE STRUCTURE;

EID: 70350322981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019160     Document Type: Article

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