Three-dimensional mapping of optical near field of a nanoscale bowtie antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4961-4971

  Guo, Rui ^a   Kinzel, Edward C ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Uppuluri, Sreemanth M ^a   Raman, Arvind ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOW TIE; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; BOWTIE APERTURE; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT CURVES; HIGH TRANSMISSION; LONGITUDINAL DISTANCE; MICROMETER LEVELS; NANO SCALE; NANO-APERTURES; NANO-SCALE APERTURE; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL SPOTS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; SEPARATION DISTANCES; THREE DIMENSIONAL MAPPING; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77749248911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004961     Document Type: Article

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