Preface |
How to read this book |
History of Near-field Optics / Chapter 1: |
Notion of imaging system / 1.1: |
Bases of imaging / 1.2: |
Vision / 1.2.1: |
Image / 1.2.2: |
Far-field imaging systems / 1.2.3: |
Notion of superresolution / 1.2.4: |
Near-field imaging systems / 1.2.5: |
History of near-field microscopy / 1.3: |
Synge's speculation / 1.3.1: |
J. O'Keefe's letter / 1.3.2: |
E. Ash and G. Nicholls realization / 1.3.3: |
Superresolution in imaging systems / 1.3.4: |
Scanning tunnelling microscopy / 1.3.5: |
Early optical near-field microscopes / 1.3.6: |
Non-radiating Sources & Non-propagating Fields / Chapter 2: |
Introduction / 2.1: |
A few words of terminology / 2.1.1: |
Various non-radiating sources / 2.2: |
Non-radiating classical distributions / 2.3: |
Non-radiating sources by destructive interference / 2.4: |
Extension of the notion of non-radiating source / 2.5: |
Evanescent fields / 2.5.1: |
Evanescent field generated by total internal reflection / 2.5.2: |
Destructive-interference device / 2.5.3: |
Resonant evanescent fields / 2.5.4: |
Resonant spherical devices / 2.5.5: |
Evanescent Optics / Chapter 3: |
Theory of Fresnel evanescent waves / 3.1: |
Reflection and refraction laws / 3.1.1: |
Total internal reflection / 3.1.2: |
Energy flow and Poynting vector / 3.1.3: |
Goos-Hanchen and transversal shifts / 3.1.4: |
Evanescent fields generated by sub-wavelength diffraction / 3.2: |
Light beam propagation / 3.3: |
A particular case of evanescent waves: the plasmons / 3.4: |
Definition of a plasmon / 3.4.1: |
Theory / 3.4.2: |
Scanning plasmon optical microscopy / 3.4.3: |
Theories and Modellings / Chapter 4: |
Early works / 4.1: |
Recent works / 4.2: |
Different ways of approaching the theory of near-field optics / 4.3: |
Physical approach / 4.3.1: |
Model space / 4.3.2: |
Global or non-global approach / 4.3.3: |
Tip description / 4.4: |
Description in a non-global scheme / 4.4.1: |
Description in a global scheme / 4.4.2: |
Light-sample interaction / 4.5: |
Rigorous grating theory / 4.5.1: |
The reciprocal-space perturbative method (RSPM) / 4.5.2: |
Direct-space-global approaches / 4.5.3: |
Inverse Problem and Apparatus Function / Chapter 5: |
Inverse problem solution in band-limited far-field imaging / 5.1: |
Inverse propagator and reciprocity theorem / 5.3: |
Reciprocity theorem / 5.3.1: |
Inverse problem solution in near-field imaging / 5.4: |
Apparatus functions / 5.5: |
Impulse response / 5.5.1: |
Transfer function / 5.5.2: |
Criteria of Quality, Noise and Artifacts / Chapter 6: |
Degrees of freedom of an optical system / 6.1: |
Generalization of Lukosz's approach / 6.1.1: |
Far-field case / 6.1.2: |
Near-field case / 6.1.3: |
Information capacity for noisy coherent signals / 6.1.4: |
Noise in optical systems / 6.2: |
Optical noises / 6.2.1: |
External noises / 6.2.2: |
Artifacts / 6.3: |
Scanning modes in near-field microscopy / 6.3.1: |
Notion of artifact / 6.3.2: |
Comparison between the three scanning mode behaviours / 6.4: |
Input parameters of the simulation / 6.4.1: |
Constant distance mode / 6.4.2: |
Constant height mode / 6.4.3: |
Constant intensity mode / 6.4.4: |
Notion of resolution / 6.5: |
Detection / 6.5.1: |
Localization / 6.5.2: |
Resolution / 6.5.3: |
The two-point criterion / 6.5.4: |
Other estimates of resolution / 6.5.5: |
Optical transfer function OTF / 6.5.6: |
OTF in near-field optics / 6.5.7: |
Experimental OTF in near-field optics / 6.5.8: |
Contrast / 6.5.9: |
New criteria of quality / 6.5.10: |
Nano-collectors and Nano-emitters / Chapter 7: |
Precursors / 7.1: |
Near-field collection and emission / 7.2: |
Principle / 7.2.1: |
Distance of collection/emission / 7.2.2: |
Shape of nano-collectors/emitters / 7.2.3: |
Various technologies / 7.3: |
Bare tapers / 7.4: |
Shaping techniques / 7.4.1: |
Etching techniques / 7.4.2: |
Effect of parameters / 7.4.3: |
More sophisticated procedures / 7.4.4: |
High aperture angle conical tips / 7.4.5: |
Hot stretching techniques / 7.4.6: |
Advantages and drawbacks of the two techniques / 7.4.7: |
Tapered metal wire and silicon AFM tips / 7.4.8: |
Pyramidal tips / 7.4.9: |
Coated materials / 7.5: |
Flat nano-apertures / 7.5.1: |
Tapered nano-apertures / 7.5.2: |
Tapered/cleaved fibres / 7.5.3: |
Efficiency of tapered metal coated fibres / 7.5.4: |
Laser damages / 7.5.5: |
Realization of the aperture by other techniques / 7.5.6: |
Nano-antenna used as a near-field perturbing system / 7.6: |
Variant of tapered fibres / 7.7: |
Chemical sensors used as fluorescent tips / 7.8: |
Instrumentation / Chapter 8: |
Basic structure of near-field optical microscopes / 8.1: |
Mechanical part / 8.2: |
Translation stage / 8.2.1: |
Practical case / 8.2.2: |
Techniques for machining the piezo-electric tube / 8.2.3: |
Compensation of the thermal drift / 8.2.4: |
Connection of the wires on the electrodes / 8.2.5: |
Holding of the nano-collector/emitter / 8.3: |
Fibre as a nano-collector/emitter / 8.3.1: |
Other collector/emitters / 8.3.2: |
Anti-vibration devices / 8.4: |
Distance control / 8.4.1: |
Optical part / 8.5: |
Source / 8.5.1: |
Detector / 8.5.2: |
Usual optical and opto-electronic components / 8.5.3: |
Electronic stages / 8.6: |
Synchronous detection / 8.6.1: |
Distance control: the P.I.D. device / 8.6.2: |
Main Near-field Microscope Configurations / Chapter 9: |
Transmission microscopes / 9.1: |
Reflection microscopy / 9.2: |
Tunnelling microscopy / 9.3: |
Optical tunnelling microscopy / 9.4: |
Plasmon microscopy / 9.5: |
Hybrid techniques / 9.6: |
Near-field microscopy with shear-force control / 9.6.1: |
Contact near-field optical microscopy / 9.6.2: |
Near-field Image Processing / Chapter 10: |
Generalities / 10.1: |
Linear distortions / 10.1.1: |
Non-linear distortions / 10.1.2: |
Correction of distortions / 10.2: |
Correction of linear distortions / 10.2.1: |
Correction of non-linear distortions / 10.2.2: |
Correction of tip-sample sticking / 10.2.3: |
Filtering process / 10.3: |
Direct or local filtering / 10.3.1: |
Fourier or reciprocal filtering / 10.3.2: |
Karhunen-Loeve transform and information extraction / 10.4: |
Applications of Near-field Microscopy / Chapter 11: |
First attempts: topography measurements / 11.1: |
Local index variation measurement / 11.1.2: |
Light trapping / 11.2: |
Concept of nano-optics / 11.3: |
A simple case: the frustrated reflection by a sphere or a tip / 11.4: |
A second example: the resonant tunnelling effect / 11.5: |
A more sophisticated example: a sub-wavelength periodic structure / 11.6: |
Photonic transfer through segmented optical waveguides / 11.7: |
Basis of Optics / Appendix A: |
Unit Systems / A.0.1: |
Basic functions and operators in optics / A.1: |
Reminder on vectorial calculus / A.1.1: |
Relations connecting gradient, divergence and rotational / A.1.2: |
Dyadic analysis / A.1.3: |
Maxwell's equations / A.2: |
Material equations / A.2.1: |
Maxwell's equation in the dyadic scheme / A.2.2: |
Wave equation / A.3: |
There is no charges or currents ([characters not reproducible] = 0 and j = 0) / A.3.1: |
The medium is homogeneous, ([mu] and [epsilon] space-independent) / A.3.2: |
The medium is homogeneous and there is no charges or currents / A.3.3: |
Case of harmonic fields / A.3.4: |
Scalar and vector potentials / A.4: |
Static regimes / A.5: |
Poisson's and Laplace's equations / A.5.1: |
Field generated by a single charge / A.5.2: |
Flux of an electric field through a surface element / A.5.3: |
Gauss' theorem / A.5.4: |
Green's functions and Green's theorem / A.6: |
Green's functions in classical potential theory / A.6.1: |
Time dependent fields: the Helmholtz equation / A.6.2: |
Green's theorem / A.6.3: |
Green's dyadic / A.6.4: |
Expansion of a field in term of a set of plane waves / A.7: |
Basis / A.7.1: |
Angular spectrum expansion (A.S.E.) / A.7.2: |
Propagation of light using A.S.E. / A.8: |
Analysis of the results / A.9: |
Nomenclature |
List of Acronyms |
Glossary |
Index |
Author Index |
Bibliography |
Preface |
How to read this book |
History of Near-field Optics / Chapter 1: |
Notion of imaging system / 1.1: |
Bases of imaging / 1.2: |
Vision / 1.2.1: |