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Near-Field Optical Imaging of Wavefunctions and Optical Fields in Plasmonic Nanostructures

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Plasmonic nanostructures exhibit unique optical properties, and fundamental studies of these structures are relevant to wide range of research areas, both fundamental and applied. Potential applications of the plasmonic nanostructures originate from their ability to confine (and sometimes propagate as well) optical fields in nanometer scales, and are closely related to the static and dynamic properties of plasmonic waves. In this chapter, visualization of wavefunctions and optical fields in plasmonic nanostructures using near-field linear and non-linear optical methods is described.

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The authors thank Dr. T. Nagahara, Dr. J. K. Lim, Dr. N. Horimoto, Dr. T. Shimada, Dr. M. K. Hossain, and Prof. M. Kitajiama for their many essential contributions to this work. The authors also thank the Equipment Development Center of IMS for collaboration in construction of the near-field optical microscope. This work was supported by the Sumitomo foundation, the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant Nos. 16350015, 16750017, 17655011, 17034062, 18205004, 18685003, 19049015, and 22225002) and the Asian CORE program from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.

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Imura, K., Okamoto, H. (2011). Near-Field Optical Imaging of Wavefunctions and Optical Fields in Plasmonic Nanostructures. In: Ohtsu, M. (eds) Progress in Nanophotonics 1. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17481-0_4

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