Chemically etched fiber tips for near-field optical microscopy: A process for smoother tips

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 31, 1998, Pages 7289-7292

  Lambelet, Patrick ^a   Sayah, Abdeljalil ^a   Pfeffer, Michael ^a   Philipona, Claude ^a   Marquis Weible, Fabienne ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000399196     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007289     Document Type: Article

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