Subwavelength focusing by a microsphere array

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Tingting ^a   Kuang, Cuifang ^a   Hao, Xiang ^a   Liu, Xu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

microsphere array; photonic nanojet; subwavelength resolution

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSPHERES; NANOPHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; MICROSPHERE ARRAYS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PHOTONIC NANOJET; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952664477     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/3/035702     Document Type: Article

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