Plasmon‐coupled tip‐enhanced near‐field optical microscopy
- 3 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Microscopy
- Vol. 210 (3) , 220-224
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01108.x
Abstract
Near the cut‐off radius of a guided waveguide mode of a metal‐coated glass fibre tip it is possible to couple radiation to surface plasmons propagating on the outside surface of the metal coating. Th...Keywords
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