Improving imaging performance of a metallic superlens using the long-range surface plasmon polariton mode cutoff technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Tremblay, Guillaume ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METALS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CUT-OFF CONDITIONS; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; METALLIC SUPERLENS; RESONANCE MODE; SIDE LOBES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77749252144     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000A36     Document Type: Article

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