Nonperturbing observation of optical near field

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4900-4902

  Sekatskii, S K ^a   Dietler, G ^a   Mironov, B N ^b   Kompanets, V O ^b   Matveets, Yu A ^b   Chekalin, S V ^b   Letokhov, V S ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS;

LIGHT INTENSITY; NANOAPERTURE; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; PHOTOELECTRON PROJECTION IMAGES;

OPTICS;

EID: 0347133685     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1630860     Document Type: Article

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