Goldner, L.
, Hwang, J.
, Bryant, G.
, Fasolka, M.
, Absil, P.
, Hryniewicz, J.
, Johnson, F.
, Shen, H.
and Ho, P.
(2001),
Newton's Rings in Near-Field Optics, Applied Physics Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=841472
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Newton's Rings in Near-Field Optics
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, , , , P Absil, J V. Hryniewicz, F G. Johnson, H Shen, P T. Ho
Abstract
We show how Newton's rings manifest themselves in near-field scanning optical microscopy and discuss how this effect can be used with topographic imaging to measure correlated roughness of thin films. In conventional optics, transmission through a thin nonabsorbing film depends on film thickness when multiple reflectionsfrom the film boundaries are coherent. Measurements and modeling of the transmission through thin films illuminated by a near-field probe show that these oscillations are present despite the large distribution of transverse wavevectors needed to describe light from the probe.Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
78
Issue
No. 5
Pub Type
Journals
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Keywords
Correlated roughness, microscopy, near-field optics, near-field scanning optical microscopy, NSOM
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Created January 1, 2001, Updated February 17, 2017