Modulation of evanescent focus by localized surface plasmons waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22726-22734

  Gao, Xingyu ^a,b   Gan, Xiaosong ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MODULATION; NANORODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC MEDIA; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; FOCUSED EVANESCENT FIELD; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION COMPONENTS; RADIALLY POLARIZED;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 72049114746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022726     Document Type: Article

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