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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 18, Issue 15, Pages 15964-15974Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015964
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR07-NANO-036]
- Pole de competitivite Microtechnique
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We present the development and study of a single bowtie nano-aperture (BNA) at the end of a monomode optical fiber as an interface between near-fields/nano-optical objects and the fiber mode. To optimize energy conversion between BNA and the single fiber mode, the BNA is opened at the apex of a specially designed polymer fiber tip which acts as an efficient mediator (like a horn optical antenna) between the two systems. As a first application, we propose to use our device as polarizing electric-field nanocollector for scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM). However, this BNA-on-fiber probe may also find applications in nanolithography, addressing and telecommunications as well as in situ biological and chemical probing and trapping. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
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