Designing the metallic superlens close to the cutoff of the long-range mode

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 740-745

  Tremblay, Guillaume ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EVANESCENT WAVE; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FINITE DIFFERENCE IN TIME DOMAINS; RANGE MODE; SIDE LOBES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SUPERLENSES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; TRANSFER MATRIXES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 75249095616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000740     Document Type: Article

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