Surface Plasmon mediated near-field imaging and optical addressing in nanoscience
Optics
2007-11-19 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We present an overview of recent progress in plasmonics. We focus our study on the observation and excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with optical near-field microscopy. We discuss in particular recent applications of photon scanning tunnelling microscope (PSTM) for imaging of SPP propagating in metal and dielectric wave guides. We show how near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) can be used to optically and actively address remotely nano-objects such as quantum dots. Additionally we compare results obtained with near-field microscopy to those obtained with other optical far-field methods of analysis such as leakage radiation microscopy (LRM).
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@article{arxiv.0711.2648,
title = {Surface Plasmon mediated near-field imaging and optical addressing in nanoscience},
author = {A. Drezet and A. Hohenau and J. R. Krenn and M. Brun and S. Huant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2648},
year = {2007}
}