Experimental confirmation at visible light wavelengths of the backscattering enhancement phenomenon of the photonic nanojet

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7084-7093

  Yang, Seungmoo ^a   Taflove, Allen ^b   Backma, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GOLD; LIGHT; MICROCHANNELS; MICROSPHERES; NANOPARTICLES;

BACKSCATTERING ENHANCEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MEASURED DATA; MULTI-LAYERED; NANOJET; NONRESONANT; NUMERICAL APERTURE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; PRECISE POSITIONING; VISIBLE-LIGHT WAVELENGTHS;

SILICONES;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MICROSPHERE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSPHERES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 79953897099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007084     Document Type: Article

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