Near Field Optical Microscopy Using a Vibrating Knife Edge or Stylus.

Abstract

The problem studied was the detection of sub-wavelength detail by scanning near-field microscopy, using a vibrating knife-edge/stylus rather than an aperture probe. A related problem was phase detection of an optical field by such scanning, not necessarily in the sub-wavelength region. MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS: (1) Demonstration of one-dimensional principle of operation; (2) Demonstration of non sub-wavelength two-dimensional microscope with vibrating knife edge corner; (3) Demonstration of non sub-wave length two-dimensional tomographic microscope with vibrating knife edge; (4) Analysis and simulation of evanescent wave to plane wave conversion; (5) Analysis and demonstration of phase measuring properties of one-dimensional vibrating knife edge microscope. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA303966

Entities

People

  • Adrian Korpel

Organizations

  • Iowa State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Conversion
  • Demonstrations
  • Detection
  • Evanescent Waves
  • Information Operations
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Military Research
  • Near Field
  • Plane Waves
  • Scanning
  • Simulations
  • Students
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computer Vision.