Generation and subwavelength focusing of longitudinal magnetic fields in a metallized fiber tip

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 13744-13754

  Ploss, Daniel ^a   Kriesch, Arian ^a   Pfeifer, Hannes ^a   Banzer, Peter ^a,b   Peschel, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

APERTURE DIAMETER; ELECTRICAL FIELD; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; METAL-COATED FIBER; METALLIZED FIBER; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84901820962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.013744     Document Type: Article

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