Nano-Optics [Paperback]

A presentation of the most advanced application of optical near-field microscopy to studies of fine metallic structures and related surface plasmons.

1 Quantum Theory for Near-Field Nano-Optics.- 1.1 Resonant Near-Field Optics.- 1.1.1 Outline of Microscopic Nonlocal Response Theory.- 1.1.2 Resonant SNOM.- 1.1.3 Coupling of Cavity Modes and Matter Excitation.- 1.2 Quantization of Evanescent Waves and Optical Near-Rield Interaction of Atoms.- 1.2.1 State of Vector Fields.- 1.2.2 Radiative Fields Near a Planar Dielectric Surface.- 1.2.3 Detector-Mode Functions and Field Quantization.- 1.2.4 Multipole Radiation near a Dielectric Surface.- 1.2.5 Spontaneous Radiative Lifetime in an Optical Near-Field.- 1.3 Quantum Mechanical Aspects of Optical Near-Field Problems.- 1.3.1 Properties of Near-Field Optical Interactions.- 1.3.2 Observations and Transport Properties in the Near-Field.- 1.3.3 Local Mode Descriptions and Compatibility with Macroscopic Descriptions.- References.- 2 Electromagnetism Theory and Analysis for Near-Field Nano-Optics.- 2.1 Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis of a Near-Field Microscope System.- 2.1.1 Near-Field Microscope as a Multiple Scattering System.- 2.1.2 Finite-Difference Time-Domain Algorithm for NSOM Imaging.- 2.1.3 NSOM Image Without Effects of ProbeSample Interaction.- 2.1.4 NSOM Image When the Probe-Sample Interaction is Included.- 2.1.5 Effect of the ProbeSample Distance on the Generated NSOM Images.- 2.1.6 Dependence of NSOM Image on the Spatial Frequency Content of Sample Surface.- 2.2 Reconstruction of an Optical Image from NSOM Data.- 2.2.1 Necessity for Numerical Inversion of the NSOM System.- 2.2.2 NSOM Image of Dielectric Strips.- 2.2.3 Deconvolution of Dielectric Strips with Nonnegativity Constraint.- 2.2.4 Reconstruction of Metal Strips.- 2.3 Radiation Force Exerted near a Nano-Aperture.- 2.3.1 Radiation Force to Trap a Small Particle.- 2.3.2 Force Distribution Exerted on the Sphere near a Subwavelength Aperlc3