Three-dimensional orientation of single molecules in a tunable optical λ/2 microresonator

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 504-508

  Gutbrod, Raphael ^a   Khoptyar, Dmitry ^b   Steiner, Mathias ^c   Chizhik, Anna M ^a   Chizhik, Alexey I ^a   Bär, Sebastian ^a   Meixner, Alfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcavity; Nanooptics; Nanoscopy; Optical vector field; Single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION PATTERN; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; MICRO RESONATORS; NANOMETER PRECISION; NANOOPTICS; OPTICAL VECTOR FIELD; RADIALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAM; RESONATOR LENGTH; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ORIENTATION; VECTOR FIELDS; VECTOR PROPERTIES;

LASER BEAMS; MICROCAVITIES; RESONATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MOLECULES;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 76749103437     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl903318p     Document Type: Article

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