• DocumentCode
    1138732
  • Title

    Optical antennas [AP-S turnstile]

  • Author

    Bansal, Rajeev

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Connecticut, Fairfield, CT
  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    172
  • Abstract
    For a long time, microwave engineers have freely borrowed concepts such as image theory and Babinet´s Principle from the older discipline of optics to explain how various kinds of aperture antennas (horns, reflectors, etc.) do their job [C.A. Balanis, 2005]. The time has finally come to return the favor, as optical engineers harness the power of the humble dipole antenna to peek beyond the diffraction limit [S. Johnson, 2007; H. Jones-Bey, 2006; B.M. Deutsch and L. Novotny; 2006; K. Kempa et al., 2007].
  • Keywords
    lens antennas; aperture antennas; diffraction limit; dipole antenna; optical antennas; Antenna theory; Biomedical optical imaging; Carbon nanotubes; Dipole antennas; Gold; Nanobioscience; Optical microscopy; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Quantum cascade lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1045-9243
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAP.2008.4494526
  • Filename
    4494526