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Tomographic Reconstruction of Quasistatic Surface Polariton Fields
Raphael Hauer1, Georg Haberfehlner1, Gerald Kothleitner1,2
1Graz Centre for Electron Microscopy, Steyrergasse 17, 8010Graz, Austria.
Abstract:
We theoretically investigate the tomographic reconstruction of the three-dimensional photonic environment of nanoparticles. As input for our reconstruction we use electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) maps for different rotation angles. We perform the tomographic reconstruction of surface polariton fields for smooth and rough nanorods and compare the reconstructed and simulated photonic local density of states, which are shown to be in very good agreement. Using these results, we critically examine the potential of our tomography scheme and discuss limitations and directions for future developments.
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