Light focusing at metallic annular slit structure coated with dielectric layers

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 950-954

  Ko, Hyungduk ^a   Kim, Hyun Chul ^a   Cheng, Mosong ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SILVER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANNULAR RINGS; ANNULAR SLIT; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DIELECTRIC THICKNESS; FOCAL INTENSITY; INCIDENT WAVES; MULTIPLE RING; NANO-OPTIC DEVICES;

FOCUSING;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; INTERFEROMETRY; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77649119945     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000950     Document Type: Article

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