Optical singularities associated with the energy flow of two closely spaced core-shell nanocylinders

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19451-19458

  Lu, J Y ^a   Chang, Y H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW PATTERNS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

DIELECTRIC CORE; NANOCYLINDERS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PLASMON MODES; ROTATING DIRECTION; SADDLE POINT; SPACED DIELECTRIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70749149678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019451     Document Type: Article

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