CONTROLLING AND TUNING STRONG OPTICAL-FIELD GRADIENTS AT A LOCAL PROBE MICROSCOPE TIP APEX

Authors
MARTIN OJF GIRARD C
Citation
Ojf. Martin et C. Girard, CONTROLLING AND TUNING STRONG OPTICAL-FIELD GRADIENTS AT A LOCAL PROBE MICROSCOPE TIP APEX, Applied physics letters, 70(6), 1997, pp. 705-707
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
70
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
705 - 707
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)70:6<705:CATSOG>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
We show that strong optical field gradients can be created at the tip apex of a local probe microscope illuminated by an external light sour ce. We demonstrate that these confined fields can be easily, precisely and continuously tuned by changing the polarization and the incidence of the external field. We also investigate the topology of the field intensity in the tip-surface junction. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.