Visible light focusing demonstrated by plasmonic lenses based on nano-slits in an aluminum film

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14788-14793

  Chen, Qin ^a   Cumming, David R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS;

CONFOCAL SCANNING; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; FOCAL LENGTHS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; LENS PERFORMANCE; PLASMONIC LENS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; VISIBLE RANGE;

LENSES;

EID: 79953025243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014788     Document Type: Article

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