Boosting the directivity of optical antennas with magnetic and electric dipolar resonant particles

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20376-20386

  Rolly, Brice ^a   Stout, Brian ^a   Bonod, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; DIRECTIVITY; ELECTRIC DIPOLE TRANSITION; LOSSLESS DIELECTRICS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MIE RESONANCE; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; RESONANT PARTICLES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84865790018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020376     Document Type: Article

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