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The advent of scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) has augmented at the microscopic level the usefulness of IR spectroscopy. Two-dimensional imaging of chemical constituents makes this a very attractive and powerful new approach. In this paper we ...
A simple model is proposed in order to evaluate the complex amplitude point spread function (intensity and phase) of a microscope objective. The model is based on the Fresnel diffraction theory and takes also into account the possible optical aberrations. ...
This thesis presents a new method for the numerical reconstruction of digital holograms recorded in the off-axis configuration using a CCD camera. The propagation of the reconstructed wave front, from the hologram plane to an observation plane, is achieved ...
Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) is an optical microscopy whose resolution is not bound to the diffraction limit. It provides chemical information based upon spectral, polarization and/or fluorescence contrast images. Details as small as 20 nm ...
In view of future generations of biosensors, the immobilization of biomolecules onto selected materials with a well controlled topical addressability is of primary importance. Photoimmobilization is a technique allowing the immobilization of a biomolecule ...
Chalcogenide glass optical fibers were fabricated into functional apertured probes for near field scanning infrared microscopy. Probe fiber tips were chemically etched and aluminum coated for the purpose of simultaneously collecting near field shear force ...
We show that dielectric objects much smaller than the wavelength used to illuminate them, can produce a confined electric field that perfectly reproduces their shape. This field can be recorded by a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM), which expl ...
Optical near field microscope for use with different, including differential contrast, methods. Microscope has a near field illuminating light source probe (3) and a photo-detector for detection of light from the object (6). Said detector has electronics f ...
