Analysis of focal-shift effect in planar metallic nanoslit lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1320-1329

  Gao, Yang ^a   Liu, Jianlong ^a   Zhang, Xueru ^a   Wang, Yuxiao ^a   Song, Yinglin ^a   Liu, Shutian ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AXIAL INTENSITY; FAR-FIELD ZONES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FOCAL LENGTHS; FOCAL SHIFTS; FRESNEL APPROXIMATION; FRESNEL NUMBER; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; NANOSLITS; NEAR-FAR; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; THEORETICAL FORMULA; TRANSFORMATION METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LENSES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84855926373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001320     Document Type: Article

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