Near-field scanning single-photon microscopy with an ultrasmall nanodiamond: How good can the resolution be?

A. Drezet; A. Cuche; O. Mollet; S. Huant

doi:10.1117/12.853658

10 May 2010 Near-field scanning single-photon microscopy with an ultrasmall nanodiamond: How good can the resolution be?

A. Drezet, A. Cuche, O. Mollet, S. Huant

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Proceedings Volume 7712, Nanophotonics III; 77120Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.853658
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We discuss the concept of resolution in the context of our recent work [Opt. Express 17, 19969-19980 (2009)] in which the realization of a point-like scanning single photon near-field source (based on a single color center in a nano-diamond) was reported. We compare this new near-field optical microscope (NSOM) probe with usual aperture-NSOM probes. We conclude that the nanodiamond-based NSOM microscope has a resolving power which is only limited by the scan height over the imaged system. This contrasts with the aperture-NSOM resolution which also critically depends on the aperture diameter.

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A. Drezet, A. Cuche, O. Mollet, and S. Huant "Near-field scanning single-photon microscopy with an ultrasmall nanodiamond: How good can the resolution be?", Proc. SPIE 7712, Nanophotonics III, 77120Z (10 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.853658

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