The depolarization near-field scanning optical microscope: Comparison of experiment and theory

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 194, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 491-494

  Von Freymann, G ^a   Adelmann, Ch ^a   Scheiber, G ^a   Schimmel, Th ^a   Wegener, M ^a  

^a Institut für Angewandte Physik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depolarization NSOM; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS;

DEPOLARIZATION NSOM; FIBRE TIP; IMAGE GRADIENTS; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; REALISTIC GEOMETRY; SIMPLE++; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS;

DEPOLARIZATION;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLARIZATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; THEORY;

EID: 0032990557     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00527.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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