Generation of broadband longitudinal fields for applications to ultrafast tip-enhanced near-field microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25328-25336

  Furusawa, Kentaro ^a   Hayazawa, Norihiko ^a,b   Okamoto, Takayuki ^a   Tanaka, Takuo ^a   Kawata, Satoshi ^a,b,c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AUTOCORRELATION TECHNIQUES; BROADBAND LASER PULSE; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; LONGITUDINAL FIELDS; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR EXCITATION; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

GOLD COATINGS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE;

EID: 82955214727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025328     Document Type: Article

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