Enhanced light confinement in a near-field optical probe with a triangular aperture

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2108011-2108014

  Naber, A ^a   Molenda, D ^a   Fischer, U C ^a   Maas, H J ^a   Hoppener C ^a   Lu, N ^a   Fuchs, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT CONFINEMENT;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0037132294     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.210801     Document Type: Article

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