Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2013,4, 603–610, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.67
Abstract We investigate the radiation patterns of sharp conical gold tapers, which were designed as adiabaticnanofocusing probes for scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM). Field calculations show that only the lowest order eigenmode of such a taper can reach the very apex and thus induce the
frequency domain. Our approach has the potential to considerably improve the signal-to-background ratio in spectroscopic experiments at the nanoscale.
Keywords: adiabaticnanofocusing; Fourier optics; metallic wire modes; plasmonics; scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM); Introduction
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opening angle [6]. This formation of a strongly confined lightspot is now termed “adiabaticnanofocusing” [6]. The expected nanometer-scale confinement offers the possibility to efficiently couple light into a single nanoobject, making such probes highly attractive for inherently background-free, new
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Scanning electron micrographs of two gold tapers that were obtained by electrochemical AC-etching o...