Superfocussing in a metal-coated tetrahedral tip by dimensional reduction of surface-to edge-plasmon modes

T. Yatsui, M. Kourogi, M. Ohtsu, Plasmon waveguide for optical far/near-field conversion. Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4583–4586 (2001)

U.C. Fischer, The tetrahedral tip as a probe for scanning near-field optical microscopy, in Near-Field Optics, ed. by D.W. Pohl, D. Courjon. NATO ASI Series E, vol. 242 (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1993), pp. 255–262

U.C. Fischer, J. Koglin, H. Fuchs, The tetrahedral tip as a probe for scanning near-field optical microscopy at 30 nm resolution. J. Microsc. 176, 231–237 (1994)

U.C. Fischer, A. Dereux, J.-C. Weeber, Controlling light confinement by excitation of localized surface plasmons. Top. Appl. Phys. 81, 49–69 (2001)

H.-J. Maas, A. Naber, H. Fuchs, U.C. Fischer, J.C. Weeber, A. Dereux, Imaging of photonic nanopatterns by scanning near-field optical microscopy. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 1295–1300 (2002)

H.-J. Maas, J. Heimel, H. Fuchs, U.C. Fischer, J.C. Weeber, A. Dereux, Photonic nanopatterns of gold nanostructures indicate the excitation of surface plasmon modes of a wavelength of 50–100 nm by scanning near-field optical microscopy. J. Microsc. 209, 241–248 (2003)

J. Heimel, U.C. Fischer, H. Fuchs, SNOM/STM using a tetrahedral tip and a sensitive current-to-voltage converter. J. Microsc. 202, 53–59 (2001)

U.C. Fischer, J. Heimel, H.-J. Maas, H. Fuchs, J.C. Weeber, A. Dereux, Super-resolution scanning near-field optical microscopy, in Optical Nanotechnologies—the Manipulation of Surface and Local Plasmons, ed. by J. Tominaga, D.P. Tsai. Topics in Applied Physics, vol. 88 (Springer, Berlin, 2003), pp. 141–151

E.G. Bortchagovsky, J. Heimel, H. Fuchs, U.C. Fischer, Dual wavelength snom imaging of monolayers of j-aggregated dye molecules. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 47, S48–S55 (2005)

S. Klein, J. Reichert, H. Fuchs, U.C. Fischer, Near-field Raman spectroscopy using a tetrahedral snom tip, in Proc. of SPIE, vol. 6195 61951F (1–7), 2006

E.G. Bortchagovsky, S. Klein, H. Fuchs, U.C. Fischer, Surface plasmon mediated tip enhanced Raman scattering. Oral contribution to the XXI International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy ICORS, 17–22 August 2008. Uxbridge, West London, UK

G. Veronis, S. Fan, Guided subwavelength plasmonic mode supported by a slot in a thin metal film. Opt. Lett. 30, 3359–3361 (2005)

I.V. Novikov, A.A. Maradudin, Channel polaritons. Phys. Rev. B 66, 035403 (2002)

D.K. Gramotnev, D.F.P. Pile, Single mode subwavelength waveguide with channel plasmon-polaritons in triangular grooves on a metal surface. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 6323–6325 (2006)

S. Bozhevolnyi, V.S. Volkov, E. Devaux, J.-Y. Laluet, T.W. Ebbesen, Channel plasmon subwavelength waveguide components including interferometers and ring resonators. Nature 440, 508–510 (2006)

D.F.P. Pile, T. Oawa, D.K. Gamotnev, T. Okamoto, M. Haraguchi, M. Fukui, S. Matsuo, Theoretical and experimental investigation of strongly localized plasmons on triangular metal wedges for subwavelength waveguiding. Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 061106 (2005)

E. Moreno, S.G. Rodrigo, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, L. Martin Moreno, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, Guiding and focusing of electromagnetic fields with wedge plasmon polaritons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023901 (2008)

K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, Simulations of nanometric optical circuits based on surface plasmon polariton gap waveguide. Appl. Phys. Lett. 82(8) (2003)

A. Bouhelier, J. Renger, M.R. Beversluis, L. Novotny, Plasmon—coupled tip enhanced near-field microscopy. J. Microsc. 210, 220–224 (2002)

F. Keilmann, Surface polariton propagation for scanning near-field microscopy. J. Microsc. 194, 567 (1999)

K. Li, M.I. Stockman, D.J. Bergman, Self similar chain of metal nanospheres as an efficient nanolens. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 2274021 (2003)

A.J. Babadjanyan, N.L. Margaryan, Kh.V. Nerkararyan, Superfocusing of surface polaritons in the conical structure. J. Appl. Phys. 87(8), 3785–3788 (2000)

M.I. Stockman, Nanofocussing of optical energy in tapered plasmonic waveguides. Phys. Rev Lett. 93, 137404 (2004)

Kh.V. Nerkarayan, Superfocussing of a surface polariton in a wedge-like structure. Phys. Lett. A 237, 103–105 (1997)

D.F.P. Pile, D.K. Gramotnev, Adiabatic and non adiabatic nanofocusing of plasmons by tapered gap plasmon waveguides. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 041111 (2006)

D.K. Gramotnev, Adiabatic nanofocussing of plasmons by sharp metallic grooves: Geometrical optics approach. J. Appl. Phys. 98, 104302 (2005)

A. Taflove, S.C. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, 3rd edn. (Artech House, Boston, 2005)

D.A. Christensen, Analysis of near-field tip patterns including object interaction using finite-difference time-domain calculations. Ultramicroscopy 57(2–3), 189–195 (1995)

J.L. Kann, T.D. Milster, F.F. Froehlich, R.W. Ziolkowski, J.B. Judkins, Linear behavior of a near-field optical-scanning system. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(8), 1677–1682 (1995)

A. Gara, M.A. Blumrich, D. Chen, G.L.T. Chiu, P. Coteus, M.E. Giampapa, R.A. Haring, P. Heidelberger, D. Hoenicke, G.V. Kopcsay, T.A. Liebsch, M. Ohmacht, B.D. Steinmacher-Burow, T. Takken, P. Vranas, Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture. IBM J. Res. Dev. 49(2–3), 195–212 (2005)

P.B. Johnson, R.W. Christy, Optical constants of the noble metals. Phys. Rev. B 6(12), 4370–4379 (1972)

J.A. Roden, S.D. Gedney, Convolution PML (CPML): an efficient fdtd implementation of the CFS-PML for arbitrary media. Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 27(5), 334–339 (2000)

P. Zwamborn, P.M. van den Berg, The three-dimensional weak form of the conjugate gradient FFT method for solving scattering problems. IEEE Trans. MTT 40, 1757–1766 (1992)

K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, T. Sugiyama, Simulation of practical nanometric optical circuits based on surface plasmon polariton gap waveguide. Opt. Express 13(1), 256–266 (2005)

G.S. Smith, An Introduction to Classical Electromagnetic Radiation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997)

D.E. Chang, A.S. Soerensen, P.R. Hemmer, M.D. Lukin, Quantum optics with surface plasmons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 053002 (2006)

D.E. Chang, A.S. Soerensen, P.R. Hemmer, M.D. Lukin, Strong coupling of single emitters to surface plasmons. Phys. Rev. B 76, 035402 (2007)