Yu. N. Kulchin, O. B. Vitrik, A. V. Bezverbny, E. V. Pustovalov, A. A. Kuchmizhak, A. V. Nepomnyashchii, “Fibre Fabry–Perot cavity-based aperture probe for near-field optical microscopy systems”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2011, Volume 41, Number 3,Pages <nobr>249

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Optical fibres

Fibre Fabry–Perot cavity-based aperture probe for near-field optical microscopy systems

Yu. N. Kulchin^a, O. B. Vitrik^a, A. V. Bezverbny^a, E. V. Pustovalov^b, A. A. Kuchmizhak^a, A. V. Nepomnyashchii^a

^a Institute for Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok
^b Institute of Physics and Information Technologies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok

Abstract: We report a theoretical analysis and experimental study of the possibility of producing a novel type of interferometric near-field aperture probe for near-field optical microscopy systems using a fibre Fabry–Perot microcavity with a nanometre-scale aperture made in one of its output mirrors. The probe ensures a spatial resolution no worse than λ/14.

PACS: 07.60.Vg, 07.60.Ly, 07.79.Fc

Received: 18.11.2010