Investigation of propagation properties of plasmonic nanostructures with nonparaxial Gaussian beam illumination

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Fu, Yongqi ^a,c   Zhou, Wei ^a,b   Ng Lim, Lennie Enk ^a   Du, Chunlei ^c   Luo, Xiangang ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

FDTD; Optical probe; SPP; Subwavelength aperture

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; PROBES;

ENHANCED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN BEAM ILLUMINATION; OPTICAL PROBE; PLANE WAVE ILLUMINATION; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP);

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 80054882006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2748428     Document Type: Article

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