General properties of dielectric optical antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24084-24095

  Schuller, Jon A ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTION; ATOMIC SCALE; DIELECTRIC ANTENNA; EXTERNAL LOADS; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SCALING LIMITS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 73949149498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024084     Document Type: Article

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