Near Field Optics

“Some Remarks on the History of Near-Field Optics”.- Screened Tip Techniques (Aperture Microscopy).- “Principles and Applications of Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)”.- “Near Field Optical and Exciton Imaging, Spectroscopy and Chemical Sensors”.- “Amplitude, Phase Contrast, and Polarization Imaging in Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy”.- “A Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope (SNOM) for Biological Applications”.- “Reflection Shear Force/Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)”.- “Optical Tunneling through an Adjustable Liquid Metal Gap”.- Unscreened Tip Techniques.- “Recent Experimental Results with the PSTM: Observation of a Step on a Quartz Surface. Spatial Spectroscopy of Microwaveguides”.- “Combination of a Fiber and a Silicon Nitride Tip as a Bifunctional Detector, First Results and Perspectives”.- “Combined Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope using Silicon Nitride Tips”.- “The Reflection Near Field Optical Microscope: An Alternative to STOM”.- “Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscopy: Application to Very Low Relief Objects”.- “Quantum Optical Picture of Photon STM and Proposal of Single Atom Manipulation”.- “Low Temperature Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope”.- Optical Forces.- “Light Forces on Dielectric Particles and Atoms”.- “Nanometer Resolution Photon STM and Single Atom Manipulation”.- “Scanned Probe Optical Microscopy Using a Non-Intrusive Probe”.- Theory.- “Theory of Evanescent and Radiative Fields”.- “Theoretical Problems in Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy”.- “Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscopy (STOM): Theoretical Study of Polarization Effects with Two Models of Tip”.- “The 90° Prism as a Model SNOM Probe:Near-Field, Photon Tunneling, and Far-Field Properties”.- “Optical Near Field Detection and Local Spectroscopy of a Surface: A Self-Consistent Theoretical Study”.- “Near Field Scattered by Subsurface Particles”.- “Theoretical Considerations Associated with Near-Field Scanning by Subwavelength Apertures”.- “On the Resolution Limit of Near-Field Optical Microscopy”.- “Emission and Absorption of Light by Electrons or Atoms in Optical Near Fields”.- “A Perturbation-Theory Approach to Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy (SNOM)”.- Plasmons in Near-Field Optics.- “The Tetrahedral Tip as a Probe for Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy”.- “Development of a Scanned Near-Field Optical Microscope for Magneto-Optic Kerr Imaging of Magnetic Domains with 10 nm Resolution”.- “Scanning Plasmon Near-Field Microscope”.- “Direct Measurement of the Field Enhancement Caused by Surface Plasmons with the Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscope”.- Instrumental Techniques.- “Sensing Tip Morphology in Scanning Optical Microscopes”.- “Fiber Tips for Reflection Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy”.- “The Concept of an Optoelectronic Probe for Near-Field Microscopy”.- Near-Field Infrared Microscopy.- “First Specifications of a PSTM Working in the Infrared”.- “Far-Infrared Near-Field Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems”.- STM and Light.- “Tunneling with Coupling to Surface Plasmons”.- “Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”.- “Calculation of Resonantly Enhanced Light Emission from a Scanning Tunneling Microscope”.- “Light Emission from the Tunnel Junction of the STM. Possible Role of the Tcherenkov Effect”.- “A Technique for the Observation of Magneto-Optical Effectswith Nanometer Resolution”.- Related Techniques.- “A New Kind of Surface Wave: The Localiton”.- “Diffraction Gratings as Components for Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope Image Interpretation”.- “Optical Near-Field Interaction: On the Local Field inside a Quantum Tip”.- “A Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy with Optical Distance Control”.- “Progress in Vibrating Stylus Near Field Microscopy”.- “Development of a New Optical Tunneling Microscope”.- Author Index.