Fabrication and spectral tuning of standing gold infrared antennas using single fs-laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 32176-32183

  Reininghaus, Martin ^a,b   Wortmann, Dirk ^a   Cao, Zhao ^a   Hoffmann, Jón Mattis ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING PROCESS; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; GRAZING INCIDENCE; INFRARED ANTENNAS; LASER STRUCTURING; NUMERICAL APERTURE; RESONANCE CONDITION; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS;

GOLD; LASER PULSES; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84891750269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.032176     Document Type: Article

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