Sub-Wavelength Probing and Modification of Complex Photonic Structures

• Tác giả: Silvia Vignolini
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-8864531373
• ISBN-13: 978-8864531397
• ISBN-13: 978-8892736863
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 535 Light and infrared and ultraviolet phenomena
• Thông tin xuất bản: Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2010
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (90 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 241309
• Chủ đề: 1. Physics

Tóm tắt

The aim of this thesis consists in the study and modification of complex photonic nano-structures. Nowadays, propagation of light in such materials is a rich and fascinating area of research, both for its fundamental implications and for its practical technological impact. To deeply investigate light propagation inside these structures a high spatial resolution technique is required, especially because intriguing effects often occur on length scales comparable with the diffraction-limit or involve coupling phenomena on this length scale. For this reason in this thesis a Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope represents one the most straightforward tool both to study and locally modify complex photonic nano-structures from perfect periodic to completely random ones.