Probing highly confined optical fields in the focal region of a high NA parabolic mirror with subwavelength spatial resolution

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-208

  Debus, C ^a   Lieb, M A ^a,b   Drechsler, A ^a   Meixner, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Azimuthal polarization; Confocal microscopy; Gold tip; Optical field; Parabolic mirror; Radial polarization

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MIRRORS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; POLARIZATION;

AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FOCAL REGIONS; GOLD TIP; HIGH NA; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; OPTICAL FIELD; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; RADIAL POLARIZATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PARABOLIC MIRROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0038678038     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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