Near-field scanning optical microscopy of single molecules by femtosecond two-photon excitation

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Lewis ◽  
Peter Wolanin ◽  
Ari Gafni ◽  
Duncan G. Steel
2014 ◽  
Vol 938 ◽  
pp. 118-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kamal Hossain ◽  
Masahiro Kitajima ◽  
Kohei Imura ◽  
Hiromi Okamoto

Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) is known to be a technique of choice to investigate nanometric materials and their properties beyond far-field diffraction limit resulting high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution. Here in this report, a state of art facility, aperture-NSOM was used to probe single nanoparticle, dimer, trimer and small nanoaggregate of gold nanoparticles. Shear force topography and two photon induced photoluminescence (TPI-PL) images captured simultaneously by the system facilitated to clarify the correlation between the local geometry and the emitted photon of TPI-PL. Small gold aggregates including trimer showed strong optical confinement of TPI-PL with reference to that of single gold nanoparticles. It was also evident that the interparticle gap does have a great influence in localized electromagnetic (EM) field mediated optical confinement of TPI-PL. Such observations were also supported by finite different time domain (FDTD) analysis keeping the simulation parameter nearly identical to that of experiment. FDTD simulation demonstrated that incident excitation parallel to the interparticle axis induces strong near-field distribution at the interstitials whereas out of plane excitation modifies such confinement depending on the nanometric geometry of the nanoaggregates. Such an observation is indispensable to understand the localized EM field-mediated optical confinement in surface-enhanced spectroscopy.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (50) ◽  
pp. 16299-16307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neranga Abeyasinghe ◽  
Santosh Kumar ◽  
Kai Sun ◽  
John F. Mansfield ◽  
Rongchao Jin ◽  
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Nano Letters ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1329-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Protasenko ◽  
Alan C. Gallagher

1995 ◽  
Vol 67 (17) ◽  
pp. 2483-2485 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Jahncke ◽  
M. A. Paesler ◽  
H. D. Hallen

1995 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Moyer ◽  
Stefan Kämmer ◽  
Karsten Walzer ◽  
Michael Hietschold

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