Development of a fiber used for fabricating application oriented near-field optical probes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-101

  Mononobe, Shuji ^a,b   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Etching; Microscopy; Near field optics; Optical fiber (device) fabrication; Optical fiber measurement applications; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FUSED SILICA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

NEAR FIELD OPTICS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 0031647031     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651121     Document Type: Article

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