Surface Plasmon mediated near-field imaging and optical addressing in nanoscience

A. Drezet , A. Hohenau , J. R. Krenn , M. Brun , Serge Huant (1)

1 NEEL - NOF - Nano-Optique et Forces

We present an overview of recent progress in plasmonics. We focus our study on the observation and excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with optical near-field microscopy. We discuss in particular recent applications of photon scanning tunnelling microscope (PSTM) for imaging of SPP propagating in metal and dielectric wave guides. We show how near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) can be used to optically and actively address remotely nano-objects such as quantum dots. Additionally we compare results obtained with near-field microscopy to those obtained with other optical far-field methods of analysis such as leakage radiation microscopy (LRM).

Domaines: Autre [cond-mat.other]; Optique [physics.optics]

A. Drezet, A. Hohenau, J. R. Krenn, M. Brun, Serge Huant. Surface Plasmon mediated near-field imaging and optical addressing in nanoscience. Micron, 2007, 38, pp.427. ⟨10.1016/j.micron.2006.06.011⟩. ⟨hal-00193187⟩