Resonant coupling from a new angle: Coherent control through geometry

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16504-16513

  Rotenberg, N ^a   Beggs, D M ^a   Sipe, J E ^b   Kuipers, L ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; PLASMONS;

COHERENT CONTROL; GUIDED MODES; INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; QUANTUM COHERENT CONTROL; RESONANT COUPLINGS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TEST SYSTEMS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880559096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016504     Document Type: Article

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