Near-field solid immersion lens microscope with advanced compact mechanical design

Tao Chen; Tom Milster; Sang Ki Park; Brendan McCarthy; Dror Sarid; Christian Poweleit; Jose Menendez

doi:10.1117/1.2361276

Near-field solid immersion lens microscope with advanced compact mechanical design

Tao Chen, Tom Milster, Sang Ki Park, Brendan McCarthy, Dror Sarid, Christian Poweleit, Jose Menendez

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Abstract

A compact mechanical package is developed for a standard microscope that implements a solid immersion lens (SIL) on a retractable bimorph swing arm. With the compact package mounted on an inverted microscope, far-field and near-field images are obtained at the same location by moving the SIL with the swing arm. With white-light incoherent illuminafion, the resolution of this system for observing digital versatile discs is around 200 nm with an effective numerical aperture of 1.5. Imaging with the SIL is compared with an atomic force microscopy scan.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	103002
Journal	Optical Engineering
Volume	45
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2361276
State	Published - Oct 2006

Keywords

Microscopy
Near field
Optical data storage
Solid immersion lens

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Engineering(all)

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