Abstract

We use a scanning near-field optical microscope in illumination mode with a metal-coated optical-fiber tip to write, at ambient conditions, nanolines on triglycine sulfate ferroelectric surfaces. Our experiments show that, in spite of the cutoff, the outcoming light intensity is sufficient to modify locally the triglycine sulfate surface. We present images that show that, with this method, linewidths as small as 60 nm can be achieved that are stable over several days.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

Nonglobal model for a near-field scanning optical microscope using diffraction of the optical near field

K. Jang and W. Jhe
Opt. Lett. 21(4) 236-238 (1996)

Micromachining of diamond with a near-field scanning optical microscope

Igor I. Smolyaninov and Christopher C. Davis
Opt. Lett. 26(19) 1495-1497 (2001)

Equivalence of constant-height and constant-intensity images in scanning near-field optical microscopy

Rémi Carminati and Jean-Jacques Greffet
Opt. Lett. 21(16) 1208-1210 (1996)

Near-field scanning optical microscope with a metallic probe tip

Yasushi Inouye and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 19(3) 159-161 (1994)

Near-field optical microscope with a multiheight scanning–imaging mode

Hiroshi Hatano, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 22(20) 1532-1534 (1997)