Imaging second harmonic generation at nanostructured metal surfaces with a near-field scanning optical microscope

Author

Rossi, M. Zavelani ; Celebrano, M. ; Polli, D. ; Cerullo, G. ; Silvestri, S. De ; Svelto, O. ; Labardi, M. ; Allegrini, M.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Fis., Politec. di Milano, Milano

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Femtosecond pulses coupled to hollow-pyramid near-field probes allow achieving sufficient peak power to perform near-field nonlinear optics. We present second-harmonic generation images of nanostructured metal surfaces with spatial resolution better than 100 nm.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; image resolution; nanostructured materials; optical harmonic generation; optical images; optical microscopy; femtosecond pulses; hollow-pyramid near-field probes; nanostructured metal surfaces; near-field nonlinear optics; near-field scanning optical microscope; second harmonic generation; spatial resolution; Image generation; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical harmonic generation; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical pulses; Probes; Spatial resolution; Ultrafast optics; 180.5810 (scanning-microscopy); 320.7110 (ultrafast nonlinear optics); 999.9999 (nano-optics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629005

Filename

4629005