Coupling of light from microdisk lasers into plasmonic nano-antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20878-20884

  Hattori, Haroldo T ^a   Li, Ziyuan ^a   Liu, Danyu ^b   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^c   Premaratne, Malin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASERS; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NANOSENSORS; PLASMONS;

BIOLOGICAL SENSORS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; INFRARED REGIONS; METALLIC REGIONS; NANOMETRIC SCALE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PASSIVE DEVICES; TYPICAL APPLICATION;

NANOANTENNAS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 70749127886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020878     Document Type: Article

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