Fabrication of a triple tapered probe for near-field optical spectroscopy in UV region based on selective etching of a multistep index fiber

Optics Communications

Volumn 146, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 45-48

  Mononobe, Shuji ^a   Saiki, Toshiharu ^a   Suzuki, T ^b   Koshihara, S ^b   Ohtsu, M ^a,b  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buffered hydrogen fluoride solution; Near field optics; Optical fiber; Scanning probe microscopy; Selective etching; Ultraviolet spectroscopy; Vapor phase axial deposition

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ETCHING; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYSILANES; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

MULTISTEP INDEX FIBER; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SELECTIVE ETCHING;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 0031650982     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00506-3     Document Type: Article

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