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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 13358-13369Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.013358
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We demonstrate a method of rapidly acquiring background-free infrared near-field spectra by combining magnitude and phase resolved scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) with a wavelength-swept quantum cascade laser (QCL). Background-free measurement of both near-field magnitude and phase allows for direct comparison with far-field absorption spectra, making the technique particularly useful for rapid and straightforward nanoscale material identification. Our experimental setup is based on the commonly used pseudo-heterodyne detection scheme, which we modify by operating the interferometer in the white light position; we show this adjustment to be critical for measurement repeatability. As a proof-of-principle experiment we measure the near-field spectrum between 1690 and 1750 cm(-1) of a PMMA disc with a spectral resolution of 1.5 cm(-1). We finish by chemically identifying two fibers on a sample surface by gathering their spectra between 1570 and 1750 cm(-1), each with a measurement time of less than 2.5 minutes. Our method offers the possibility of performing both nanoscaleresolved point spectroscopy and monochromatic imaging with a single laser that is capable of wavelength-sweeping. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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