Demonstration of an elliptical plasmonic lens illuminated with radially-like polarized field

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10871-10877

  Lerman, Gilad M ^a   Yanai, Avner ^a   Ben Yosef, Nissim ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BEAM TRAPPING; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GREEN FUNCTION APPROACH; INCIDENT LIGHT; OPTIMUM COUPLING; PLASMONIC LENS; POLARIZATION FIELD; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURED PATTERNS; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMONS POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77952719194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010871     Document Type: Article

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