Optical fiber nanoprobe preparation for nearfield optical microscopy by chemical etching under surface tension and capillary action

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19470-19475

  Mondal, Samir K ^a,b   Mitra, Anupam ^c   Singh, Nahar ^a   Sarkar, S N ^d   Kapur, Pawan ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FIBERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; NANOPROBES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROBES; SURFACE TENSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACID SOLUTIONS; CAPILLARY ACTION; CHEMICAL ETCHING; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL IMAGING; SENSOR APPLICATIONS; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSDUCER;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70749117875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019470     Document Type: Article

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