Silicon planar-apertured probe array for high-density near-field optical storage

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3566-3571

  Bok Lee, Myung ^a   Kourogi, Motonobu ^b,c   Yatsui, Takashi ^b   Tsutsui, Kazuo ^b   Atoda, Nobufumi ^a   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^c  

^a NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DURABILITY; ETCHING; GLASS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

OPTICAL HEADS; PLANAR APERTURED PROBE ARRAY;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0032620954     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003566     Document Type: Article

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