EPS QEOD Thesis Prizes: The Winners of 2011
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 14 Story 2 - 26/7/2011

Coupled nanoantenna and plasmonic lens

Rings, etched in a gold film, act as a lens redirecting free-space light waves into focused propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves. The waves efficiently excite the vertical antenna (inset) and nano-sized hot spots appear at its apex.
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Coupled nanoantenna and plasmonic lens. Rings, etched in a gold film, act as a lens redirecting free-space light waves into focused propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves. The waves efficiently excite the vertical antenna (inset) and nano-sized hot spots appear at its apex.