Use of a scanning near-field optical microscope architecture to study fluorescence and energy transfer near a metal

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 120-122

  Pagnot, Thierry ^a   Barchiesi, Dominique ^a   Van Labeke, Daniel ^a   Pieralli, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICA;

QUANTUM YIELD; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SLIDING MEAN METHOD; TIP SAMPLE DISTANCE;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 0030834749     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000120     Document Type: Article

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