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Optical Characterization of Plasmonic Nanostructures: Near-Field Imaging of the Magnetic Field of Light

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In this chapter, we first describe the interaction of light with metallic nanostructures and the consequently induced plasmonic effects in the structures. The most important characteristics of such interaction and their significance for various practical applications are discussed. Then, we point out the difficulties related to the experimental characterization of plasmonic effects. In the second section we explain how the scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) can overcome those difficulties. The practical experimental realization of such microscope and different variations of the setup are further discussed. In the last section of the chapter we focus on the main subject of this thesis—the imaging of the magnetic field of light. We point out the necessity and the main difficulties related to such measurements. Then, we describe the experimental setup which we use for this purpose.

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D. Denkova, N. Verellen, A.V. Silhanek, V.K. Valev, P. Van Dorpe, V.V. Moshchalkov

Mapping magnetic near-field distributions of plasmonic nanoantennas

ACS Nano 7, 3168 (2013).

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Denkova, D. (2016). Introduction. In: Optical Characterization of Plasmonic Nanostructures: Near-Field Imaging of the Magnetic Field of Light. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28793-5_1

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