Optics at the Nanometer Scale
Subtitle: Imaging and Storing with Photonic Near Fields
By: edited by M. Nieto-Vesperinas, N. García
Contributors: García, N.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences, 0168-132X -- 319; NATO ASI series -- 319.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789400902473
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Near Field Optics: Recent Progress and Perspectives', Miraflores, Madrid, Spain, September 11-15, 1995
Description: <Em>Optics at the Nanometer Scale: Imaging and Storing with Photonic Near</em> <em>Fields</em> deals with the fundamentals of and the latest developments and applications of near-field optical microscopy, giving basic accounts of how and under what circumstances superresolution beyond the half- wavelength Rayleigh limit is achieved. Interferometric and fluorescence techniques are also described, leading to molecular and even atomic resolution using light. The storage of optical information at this level of resolution is also addressed.