Reproducible fabrication of a fiber probe with a nanometric protrusion for near-field optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1496-1500

  Mononobe, Shuji ^a   Naya, Masayuki ^a   Saiki, Toshiharu ^a   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^a,b  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dip coating; Dispersion compensating fiber; Etching; Evanescent light; Feedback; Near field optics; Optical fiber; Probe; Scanning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000024535     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001496     Document Type: Article

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