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Near-Field Optical Fiber Probes and the Applications II

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Recent developments in near-field optical microscopy have made it possible to obtain optical images with nanometer-scale spatial resolution by scanning a fiber probe with a subwavelength aperture [1]. In attempts to improve performance in spatially resolved spectroscopy, a serious problem of the fiber probe is its low throughput (in the case of illumination-modeoperation, the throughput is defined as the ratio of the output light power at the apex to the incident light power coupled into the fiber). The essential cause of the low throughput is the guiding loss along the metallized tapered core. Based on a mode analysis of the tapered core, we review our work to realize high-throughput probes and the applications.

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Valuable discussions with Drs. M. Kourogi, K. Tsutsui (Tokyo Institute of Technology), J. Tominaga (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), and J. Takahashi (Ricoh Company, Ltd.) are deeply appreciated.

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Yatsui, T., Ohtsu, M. (2013). Near-Field Optical Fiber Probes and the Applications II. In: Ohtsu, M. (eds) Handbook of Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31066-9_9

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