Simultaneous measurement of nanoscale electric and magnetic optical fields

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-46

  Le Feber, B ^a   Rotenberg, N ^a   Beggs, D M ^a,b   Kuipers, L ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METAMATERIALS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84891345041     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.323     Document Type: Article

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