Interaction of highly focused vector beams with a metal knife-edge

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7244-7261

  Marchenko, P ^a,b   Orlov, S ^a,b   Huber, C ^a,b   Banzer, P ^a,b   Quabis, S ^a,b   Peschel, U ^a,b   Leuchs, G ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

EIGEN MODES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOCUSED BEAMS; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE OBJECTIVE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LINEARLY POLARIZED; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL BEAMS; PURE MATERIALS; STANDARD EVALUATIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL MODELS;

METALS;

EID: 79953875931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007244     Document Type: Article

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