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Demetrio Macías1, Alexandre Vial, Dominique Barchiesi
1Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique, Université de Technologie de Troyes-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FRE2671), Troyes, France. demetrio.macias@utt.fr
Abstract:
We introduce an inversion procedure for the characterization of a nanostructure from near-field intensity data. The method proposed is based on heuristic arguments and makes use of evolution strategies for the solution of the inverse problem as a nonlinear constrained-optimization problem. By means of some examples we illustrate the performance of our inversion method. We also discuss its possibilities and potential applications.
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