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Relationship between scanning near-field optical images and local density of photonic states
Christian GirardGérard Colas Des FrancsAlain DereuxJean-claude Weebersubject
Physicsbusiness.industrySolid anglePhysics::OpticsGeneral Physics and AstronomyNear and far fieldlaw.inventionFormalism (philosophy of mathematics)OpticsOptical microscopelawNear-field scanning optical microscopePhysical and Theoretical ChemistryPhotonicsbusinessdescription
From numerical calculations based on Green's dyadic formalism, we show that a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) working with a point-like illuminating probe delivers images that contain features directly related to the local density of photonic states (LDOS). More precisely, an unambiguous identification of the partial LDOSs (x, y or z polarized) can be made in the SNOM images when the solid angle of detection reaches 2π sr.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-09-01 | Chemical Physics Letters |