Quantitative imaging of the optical near field

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 22063-22078

  Kühler, Paul ^a,b,d   De Abajo, F Javier Garćia ^c   Leiprecht, Philipp ^a,b   Kolloch, Andreas ^a   Solis, Javier ^b   Leiderer, Paul ^a   Siegel, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; COMPLEX NANOSTRUCTURES; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; LIGHT PLANE; MATERIAL RESPONSE; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; MODEL-BASED OPC; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RIGOROUS SOLUTION; SHORT LASER PULSE; SMALL PARTICLES; SPATIAL INTENSITY;

MICROSPHERES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84866655382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.022063     Document Type: Article

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