Nano-Optics
By: edited by Satoshi Kawata, Motoichi Ohtsu, Masahiro Irie
Contributors: Ohtsu, Motoichi; Irie, Masahiro
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 0342-4111 -- 84; Springer series in optical sciences -- 84.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783540452737
Description: When a photon meets a nanostructure, many interesting phenomena occur. This book aims at developing the theories and the applications of photon interactions with nanostructures. The contributors were all participants in the well-known Japanese national research project, "Near-Field Nano-Optics", which ran from 1997 to 2000. The book covers a wide range of disciplines in nano-optics, including the theoretical development of imaging-contrast mechanisms as a result of photon and nanomatter interactions, and discussions on different near-field nanoprobes. Applications of nano-optics to sensing, imaging, analysis, and the fabrication of nanostructures, such as molecules and quantum devices, are also discussed, with a collection of experimental examples.
Table of contents: title: History and state of the art of near-field nano-optics; title: Theory of near-field nano-optics; title: Aperture probes: Fabrication and new design; title: Apertureless probes and polariton; title: Optical data storage with NFNO; title: Photochemistry with near-field nano-optics; title: Biophysics with NFNO; title: Quantum physics with near-field nano-optics; title: Photon force and NSOM.