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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3095556
Keywords
gold; high-speed optical techniques; nanostructured materials; nanotechnology; near-field scanning optical microscopy; nonlinear optics
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We describe an aperture scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) using cantilevered hollow pyramid probes coupled to femtosecond laser pulses. Such probes, with respect to tapered optical fibers, present higher throughput and laser power damage threshold, as well as greater mechanical robustness. In addition, they preserve pulse duration and polarization in the near field. The instrument can operate in two configurations: illumination mode, in which the SNOM probe is used to excite the nonlinear response in the near field, and collection mode, where it collects the nonlinear emission following far-field excitation. We present application examples highlighting the capability of the system to observe the nonlinear optical response of nanostructured metal surfaces (gold projection patterns and gold nanorods) with sub-100-nm spatial resolution.
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