Electrically driven optical antennas

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 582-586

  Kern, Johannes ^a,b   Kullock, René ^a   Prangsma, Jord ^c   Emmerling, Monika ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a   Hecht, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONS; SHOT NOISE;

ANTENNA GEOMETRY; ANTENNA RESONANCE; ELECTRICAL DRIVING; ELECTRICAL GENERATORS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 84940367507     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.141     Document Type: Article

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