A subwavelength slit as a quarter-wave retarder

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24219-24227

  Chimento, Philip F ^a   Kuzmin, Nikolay V ^a,b   Bosman, Johan ^a   Alkemade, Paul F A ^c   'T Hooft, Gert W ^a,d   Eliel, Eric R ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DICHROISM; POLARIZATION;

GOLD FILM; NANOSLITS; QUARTER WAVES; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 82055170424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024219     Document Type: Article

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