Near-field microscopy with a single-photon point-like emitter: Resolution versus the aperture tip?

Optics Communications

Volumn 284, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1444-1450

  Drezet, Aurélien ^a   Cuche, Aurélien ^a   Huant, Serge ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; METAL COATINGS; NANODIAMONDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

APERTURE DIAMETER; DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NANO-OBJECTS; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD METAL;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 78751644455     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.10.097     Document Type: Article

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