A simple low-cost highly reproducible method of fabricating optical fiber tips for a photon scanning tunneling microscope

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 243-248

  Hosain, S I ^a   Lacroute, Y ^a   Goudonnet, J P ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical etching technique; Microscope; Optical fiber tips

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ETCHING; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OPTICAL FIBER TIPS; PHOTON SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 0030571419     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(19961205)13:5<243::AID-MOP1>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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