Spatial Resolution of Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy with Sub-wavelength Aperture

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2 November 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.physics/9911001

Abstract

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is employed to solve the three dimensional Maxwell equation for the situation of near-field microscopy using a sub-wavelength aperture. Experimental result on unexpected high spatial resolution is reproduced by our computer simulation.

Keywords

WAVELENGTH APERTURE
COMPUTER SIMULATION
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
OPTICAL MICROSCOPY
SCANNING OPTICAL
SUB WAVELENGTH
FIELD SCANNING

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