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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 80, Issue 19, Pages 3479-3481Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1478780
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Second-harmonic generation at a gold tip apex has been studied within the context of applications in apertureless scanning near-field microscopy. Polarization and distance dependencies of second-harmonic generation have been investigated and compared to respective dependencies for scattered fundamental light. The results shows that, in general, different topological features of a tip are responsible for scattering and second-harmonic generation in the far and near field. The near-field interaction between a probe tip and a surface significantly modifies enhancement of the electromagnetic field at the tip and results in different distance dependencies of near-field scattering and second-harmonic generation. The polarization contrast obtained with the second-harmonic signal significantly exceeds the polarization contrast of linear scattering from the tip. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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