Near-field optical microscopy with a nanodiamond-based single-photon tip

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19969-19980

  Cuche, Aurélien ^a   Drezet, Aurélien ^a   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a,c   Faklaris, Orestis ^b   Treussart, François ^b   Roch, Jean François ^b   Huant, Serge ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; NANODIAMONDS; PHOTONS;

DIAMOND NANOCRYSTALS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING; NITROGEN VACANCIES; QUANTUM EMITTERS; QUANTUM PLASMONICS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

DIAMOND; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70749100326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019969     Document Type: Article

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