Self-consistent model for photon scanning tunneling microscopy: Implications for image formation and light scattering near a phase-conjugating mirror

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2381-2392

  Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Vohnsen, Brian ^a   Bozhevolnaya, Elena A ^a   Berntsen, Svend ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EVANESCENT WAVES; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; IMAGE FORMATION; LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MACROSCOPIC SELF CONSISTENT MODEL; OPTICAL IMAGES; PHOTON SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TIP SURFACE DISTANCE;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030412353     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.13.002381     Document Type: Article

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