Simulation of confined and enhanced optical near fields for a long narrow aperture in a pyramidal structure on a thick metallic screen

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2344-2352

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTIMIZATION;

HIGH EMISSION INTENSITY; NEAR FIELD INTENSITY; OPTICAL WAVE SCATTERING; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 10944256038     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.002344     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. E. Betzig and R. J. Chichester, "Single molecules observed by near-field scanning optical microscopy," Science 262, 1422-1425 (1993).
2. E. H. Synge, "A suggested method for extending microscopic resolution into the ultra-microscopic region," Philos. Mag. 6, 356-362 (1928).
3. D. W. Pohl and D. Courjon, eds., Near Field Optics (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1993).
4. M. Ohtsu and H. Hori, Near-Field Nano-Optics (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, New York, 1999)
5. H. A. Bethe, "Theory of diffraction by small holes," Phys. Rev. 66 163-182 (1944).
6. C. J. Bouwkamp, "On the diffraction of electromagnetic waves by small circular disks and holes," Philips Res. Rep. 5, 401-422 (1950).
7. A. Roberts, "Small-hole coupling of radiation into a near-field probe," J. Appl. Phys. 70, 4045-4049 (1991).
8. L. Novotony, D. W. Pohl, and B. Hecht, "Scanning near-field optical probe with ultrasmall spot size," Opt. Lett. 20, 970-972 (1995).
9. R. D. Grober, R. J. Schoelkopf, and D. E. Prober, "Optical antenna: Towards a unity efficiency near-field optical probe," Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 1354-1356 (1997).
10. E. Oesterschulze, G. Georgiev, M. Muller-Weigand, A. Vollkopf, and O. Rudow, "Transmission line probe based on a bow-tie antenna, J. Microsc. 202, 39-44 (2001).
11. T. Thio, H. J. Lezec, T. W. Ebbesen, K. M. Pellerin, G. D. Lewen, A. Nahata, and R. A. Linke, "Giant optical transmission of sub-wavelength apertures: physics and applications," Nanotechnology 13, 429-4321 (2002).
12. H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, E. Devaux, R. A. Linke, L. Martin-Moreno, F. J. Carcia-Vidal, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture," Science 297, 820-822 (2002).
13. A. Naber, D. Molenda, U. C. Fischer, H.-J. Maas, C. Höppener, N. Lu, and H. Fuchs, "Enhanced light confinement in a near-field optical probe with a triangular aperture," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 210801 (2002).
14. K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka, "Simulation of an aperture in the thick metallic screen that gives high intensity and small spot size using surface plasmon polariton," J. Microsc. 210, 294-300 (2003).
15. E. K. Miller, L. Medgyesi-Mitschnag, and E. H. Newsman, eds., Computational Electromagnetics Frequency-Domain Method of Moments (IEEE Press, Piscataway, N.J., 1992).
16. J. H. Wang, Generalized Moment Method in Electromagnetics: Formulation and Computer Solution of Integral Equations (Wiley, New York. 1991).
17. J. J. H. Wang and J. R. Dubberley, "Computation of fields in an arbitrarily shaped heterogeneous dielectric or biological body by an iterative conjugate gradient method," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 37, 1119-1124 (1989).
18. O. J. F. Martin, C. Girard, and A. Dereux, "Generalized field propagator for electromagnetic scattering and light confinement," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 526-529 (1995).
19. D. Barchiesi, C. Girard, O. J. F. Maratin, D. V. Labeke, and D. Courjon, "Computing the optical near-field distributions around complex subwavelength surface structures: a comparative study of different methods," Phys. Rev. E 54, 4285-4292 (1996).
20. O. J. F. Martin, C. Girard, and A. Dereux, "Dielectric versus topographic contrast in near-field microscopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1801-1808 (1996).
21. O. J. F. Martin and C. Girard, "Controlling and tuning strong optical field gradients at a local probe microscope tip apex," Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 705-707 (1997).
22. C. Girard, J. C. Weeber, A. Dereux, O. J. F. Martin, and J. P. Goudonnet, "Optical magnetic near-field intensities around nanometer-scale surface structures," Phys. Rev. B 55, 16487-16496 (1997).
23. K. Kobayashi and O. Watanuki, "Characteristics of photon scanning tunneling microscope read-out," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 14, 804-808 (1996).
24. K. Tanaka, M. Yah, and M. Tanaka, "A simulation of near-field optics by three-dimensional volume integral equation of classical electromagnetic theory," Opt. Rev. 8, 43-53 (2001).
25. K. Tanaka, M. Yan, and M. Tanaka, "Simulated output images of near-field optics by volume integral equation: object placed on the dielectric substrate," Opt. Rev. 9, 213-221 (2002).
26. K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka, "Analysis and numerical computation of diffraction of an optical field by a subwavelength-size aperture in a thick metallic screen by use of a volume integral equation," Appl. Opt. 43, 1734-1746 (2004).
27. K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka, "Optimized computer-aided design of I-shaped subwavelength aperture for high intensity and small spot size," Opt. Commun. 233, 231-244 (2004).
28. K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka, "Simulation of confined and enhanced optical near-fields for an I-shaped aperture in a pyramidal structure on a thick metallic screen," J. Appl. Phys. 95, 3765-3771 (2004 ).
29. R. Barrett, T. Berry, T. F. Chart, J. Demmel, J. Donato, J. Dongarra, V. Eijkhout, R. Pozo, C. Romine, and H. van der Vorst, Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, New York, 1994).
30. A. B. Samokhin, "Integral equations of the electrodynamics for three-dimensional structure and iterative method of solving them," J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 38, 15-34 (1993).
31. C. C. Su, "Electromagnetic scattering by a dielectric body with arbitrary inhomogeneous and anisotropy," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 37, 384-389 (1989).
32. C. C. Su, "The three-dimensional algorithm of solving the electric field integral equation using face-centered node points, conjugate gradient method, and FFT," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 41, 510-515 (1993).
33. B. J. Lin, "Electromagnetic near-field diffraction of a medium slit," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 976-981 (1972).
34. E. Betzig, A. Harootunian, A. Lewis, and M. Isaacson, "Near-field diffraction by a slit: implications for superresolution microscopy," Appl. Opt. 25, 1890-1900 (1986).