Phase imaging and detection in pseudo-heterodyne scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy measurements

When considering the pseudo-heterodyne mode for detection of the modulus and phase of the near field from scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) measurements, processing only the modulus of the signal may produce an undesired constraint in the accessible values of the phase of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Moreno, Camilo; Alda, Javier; Kinzel, Edward; Boreman, Glenn
Format: Article
Publication date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/17601
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17601
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:535.14
535.82
Phase measurement
Near-field microscopy
Surface plasmons
Nanophotonics and photonic crystals
Electromagnetismo
Óptica (Física)
Optoelectrónica
2202 Electromagnetismo
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Summary:When considering the pseudo-heterodyne mode for detection of the modulus and phase of the near field from scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) measurements, processing only the modulus of the signal may produce an undesired constraint in the accessible values of the phase of the near field. A two-dimensional analysis of the signal provided by the data acquisition system makes it possible to obtain phase maps over the whole [0, 2