Far field subwavelength focusing using optical eigenmodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Baumgartl, Jörg ^a   Kosmeier, Sebastian ^a   Mazilu, Michael ^a   Rogers, Edward T F ^b   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^b   Dholakia, Kishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL BEAM; EIGEN MODES; FAR FIELD; FAR-FIELD METHODS; FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL SPOT; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL FEATURES; PARTIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING; WORKING DISTANCES;

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 79957440101     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3587636     Document Type: Article

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