Hollow-pyramid based scanning near-field optical microscope coupled to femtosecond pulses: A tool for nonlinear optics at the nanoscale

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Celebrano, Michele ^a,c   Biagioni, Paolo ^a,d   Zavelani Rossi, Margherita ^a   Polli, Dario ^a   Labardi, Massimiliano ^b   Allegrini, Maria ^b   Finazzi, Marco ^a   Du, Lamberto ^a   Cerullo, Giulio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MICROSCOPES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PROBES; SCANNING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; FAR FIELDS; FEMTO SECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTO-SECOND PULSE; GOLD NANORODS; HOLLOW PYRAMIDS; LASER POWER; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; NANO-SCALE; NANOSTRUCTURED METALS; NEAR FIELDS; NON-LINEAR EMISSIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PROJECTION PATTERNS; PULSE DURATIONS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 63649120361     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3095556     Document Type: Article

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