Computer simulations on near-field scanning optical microscopy: Can subwavelength resolution be obtained using uncoated optical fiber probes?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1170-1172

  Von Freymann, G ^a   Schimmel, Th ^a   Wegener, M ^a   Hanewinkel, B ^b   Knorr, A ^b   Koch, S W ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0000976769     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122118     Document Type: Article

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10. This way of defining the measured signal is improved with respect to our previous results [G. von Freymann, Th. Schimmel, and M. Wegener, Appl. Phys. A 66, 939 (1998)]. There the Poynting vector has been integrated over the end of the glass tip which contains artefacts from the near-field of the end of the fiber tip.