Three-dimensional nanoscale far-field focusing of radially polarized light by scattering the spps with an annular groove

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14664-14670

  Zhang, Maoguo ^a,b   Du, Jinglei ^b   Shi, Haofei ^a   Yin, Shaoyun ^a   Xia, Liangping ^a   Jia, Baohua ^c   Gu, Min ^c   Du, Chunlei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ANNULAR GROOVES; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; INCIDENT LIGHT; NANO-OPTICAL DEVICES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP); THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80051900267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014664     Document Type: Article

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