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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 736-740Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2001-00314-9
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The generality of the Bethe's two-dipole model for light diffraction through a subwavelength aperture in a conducting plane is studied in the radiation zone for coated conical fiber tips as those used in near-field scanning optical microscopy. In order to describe the angular radiated power of the tip theoretically, we present a simple, analytical model for small apertures (radius less than or similar to 40 nm) based on a multipole expansion. Our model is able to reproduce the available experimental results. It proves relatively insensitive to cone angle and aperture radius and contains, as a first approximation, the empirical two-dipole model proposed earlier.
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