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Published on: February 4, 2017
Ultrahigh interference spatial compression of light inside the subwavelength aperture of a near-field optical probe
Narkis M Arslanov1, Sergey A Moiseev
1Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russsian Federation. narslan@mail.ru
Abstract:
Spatial effects of interference and interaction of light modes in the subwavelength part of the near-field optical microscopy probe have been theoretically studied. It was found that the mode interference can lead to higher spatial compression of light (wavelength is equal to 500 nm in free space) within the transverse size of 25 nm inside the probe output aperture of 100 nm in diameter. The results predict a principal possibility of higher spatial resolution in the near-field optical microscopy technique.
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