Far-field superfocusing with an optical fiber based surface plasmonic lens made of nanoscale concentric annular slits

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20233-20243

  Liu, Yuxiang ^a   Xu, Hua ^b,c   Stief, Felix ^a   Zhitenev, Nikolai ^b   Yu, Miao ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PLASMONS;

ANNULAR SLIT; FAR-FIELD; FIBER-BASED DEVICE; MICROSCALE DEVICES; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE FEATURES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC LENS; SUPERFOCUSING;

LENSES;

GLASS FIBER; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80053991085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020233     Document Type: Article

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