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Optical fiber tips for SNOM (NSOM) and spectroscopy

 

Click through the following topics to retrieve more details:

 Overview of fabrication techniques to produce SNOM-tips
Tube-Etching fabrication scheme
Mechanistic Aspects of Tube-Etching
SEM-Images of Tube-Etched and conventionally etched tips
Metallisation of tapered glass-fibers forms the required sub-wavelength sized aperture

 

Literature:
R. M. Stöckle, C. Fokas, V. Deckert, R. Zenobi, B. Sick. B. Hecht, U. P. Wild
High Quality Near-Field Optical Probes by Tube Etching, Appl. Phys. Lett. 1999, 75, 160
R. M. Stöckle, N. Schaller, V. Deckert, C. Fokas, R. Zenobi
Brighter Near-Field Optical Probes by way of Improving the Optical Destruction Threshold, J. Microsc. 1999, 194, 378

 

Contact :

Prof. Dr. Renato Zenobi, zenobi@org.chem.ethz.ch
 
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