Numerical analysis of the transmission efficiency of heat-drawn and chemically etched scanning near-field optical microscopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1966-1972

  Moar, Peter ^a   Ladouceur, Francois ^b   Cahill, Laurie ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Virtual Photonics Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ETCHING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0005593409     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001966     Document Type: Article

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