Tailoring the directivity of both excitation and emission of dipole simultaneously with two-colored plasmonic antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 29365-29373

  Xi, Zheng ^a   Lu, Yonghua ^a   Yu, Wenhai ^a   Yao, Peijun ^a   Wang, Pei ^a   Anhui, Hai Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; SCATTERING;

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; LASER LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXIMUM EMISSIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SCATTERING PATTERN; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84890031744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.029365     Document Type: Article

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