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FDTD modeling of a polarization near-field scanning optical microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

K. SAWADA
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
M. SAKAI
Affiliation:
Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, KSP East 409, 3-2-1 Sakado, Kawasaki 213-0012, Japan
Y. KOHASHI
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
T. SAIKI
Affiliation:
Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, KSP East 409, 3-2-1 Sakado, Kawasaki 213-0012, Japan Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
H. NAKAMURA
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5292, Japan

Abstract

Maxwell equations were numerically solved by the finite-difference time-domain method in order to confirm and understand the effectiveness of observing thin surface nanostructures using a polarization near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM), which was first indicated in an experiment by Sakai et al. (2004 Nanotechnology15, S362–S364). A method that requires small computational resources to reproduce polarization NSOMs has been developed.

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Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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