OBSERVATION OF LIGHT CONFINEMENT EFFECTS WITH A NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE

Authors
WEEBER JC BOURILLOT E DEREUX A GOUDONNET JP CHEN Y GIRARD C
Citation
Jc. Weeber et al., OBSERVATION OF LIGHT CONFINEMENT EFFECTS WITH A NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE, Physical review letters, 77(27), 1996, pp. 5332-5335
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
77
Issue
27
Year of publication
1996
Pages
5332 - 5335
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)77:27<5332:OOLCEW>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
This Letter reports the experimental observation of light confinement effects by near-held optical microscopy. Depolarization effects giving rise to light confinement close to nanoscopic objects have been unamb iguously observed in near-held optical images of subwavelength dielect ric pads etched on a flat glass substrate. According to the incident p olarization, this phenomenon leads to reverse contrasts in the near-he ld optical image of the same subwavelength objects.