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Nanofocusing of radially polarized light with dielectric-metal-dielectric probe

Antosiewicz T.J., Wróbel P., Szoplik T.

Optics Express

17(11), 2009, 9191-9196, 10.1364/OE.17.009191

Nanofocusing properties of a tip in the form of a dielectric tapered fiber with metal apertureless coating and dielectric nanocladding can be tuned within a wide spectral range by choice of cladding permittivity. The silica core of diameter decreasing from 2 μm to 5 nm in apex is covered with a silver layer and has a 5 nm dielectric cladding. Internal illumination with a radially polarized Laguerre-Gauss beam guided in fiber is used. In body-of-revolution finite-difference time-domain simulations we find that with an increase of the refractive index of nanocladdings the maximum enhancement occurs for increasingly longer wavelengths.


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