To learn more about near-field optics and nano-optics, please see the following Articles and References:

Articles:

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscopy," in Proceedings from Surface Measurement and Characterization Meeting, Hamburg, SPIE Vol. 1009, pp. 254-262, 1988.

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscope," Paper Summaries, SPSE 42nd Annual Conference, Boston, pp. 11-15, 1989.

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscopy," Applied Optics, Vol. 29, No. 26, pp. 3741-3752, 1990.

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscopy of polymers," IS&T 46th Annual Conference Advance Printing of Paper Summaries, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 62-66, 1993.

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscopy of diamond-turned surfaces," Applied Optics, Vol. 32, No.1, pp. 24-26, 1993.

Guerra, J. M., Srinivasarao, M., Winter, H. H., Stein, R. S., "Photon Tunneling Microscopy," Polymer Preprints (April 1992), Vol. 33.

Guerra, J. M., Srinivasarao, M., and Stein, R., "Photon tunneling microscopy of polymeric surfaces," Science, Vol. 262, pp. 1395-1400, 1993.

Guerra, J. M., Srinivasarao, M., and Winter, H., "Photon tunneling microscopy of single crystals of polypropylene," Polymer, April, 1994.

Guerra, J. M., Hsieh, A., and Srinivasarao, M., "Photon tunneling microscopy of polymers," AFM/STM Conference (1993), Natick Army Labs., Natick, Mass. In: Atomic Force Microscopy/ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Edited by S. Cohen, M. Bray, and M. Lightbody, Plenum Press, 1994.

Guerra, J. M., "Photon tunneling microscopy applications." In: Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings: Determining Nanoscale Physical Properties of Materials by Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Vol. 332: 449-460, M. Sarikaya, H. K. Wickramasinghe and M. Isaacson, eds. 1994.

Guerra, J. M., "Super-resolution through Diffraction-born Evanescent Waves," Appl. Phys. Lett. 66 (26), p. 3555. 1995.

J. M. Guerra and G. K. Menon, "Photon Tunneling Microscopy: A New Technique for Imaging Stratum Corneum," The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, To be published.

J. M. Bennett, Y. Namba, J. M. Guerra, J. Jahanmir, T. L. Balter, and J. C. Podlesny, "Topographic Measurements of Precision Ground Optical Glasses," Applied Optics, Vol. 36, (10) p. 2211-2216, 1997.

K. Goyal, J. D. Bhawalker, Y. Conturie, P. Gavrilovic, Y. Mao, H. Po, and J. Guerra, "High beam quality of ultraviolet radiation generated through resonant enhanced frequency doubling of a diode laser," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 16, No. 12, Dec. 1999. P. 2207-2216.

Guerra, J. M., Photon Tunneling Microscopy: Seeing in Forbidden Light, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (in preparation).

Guerra, J.M. et al, "Embedded nano-optic media for near-field high density optical data storage: modeling, fabrication, and performance," Proceedings, Optical Data Storage Conference, SPIE, April, 2001.

Guerra, J. M. et al, "Near-field optical recording without low-flying heads," ISOM Technical Digest, Taipei, 2001.

Guerra, J. M. et al, "Near-field optical recording without low-flying heads: Integral Near-Field Optical (INFO) Media," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 41 (2002) pp. 1866-1875 Pt. 1, No. 3B, March, 2002

 

References

Characterization of Optical Thin Films  (D. Smith, Institute of Optics, 1991),  

Collier’s Encyclopedia Yearbook of 1993  (P. F. Collier, 1994),  

Atomic Force Microscopy/Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,  (S. Cohen, M. Bray, and M. Lightbody,  Eds., Plenum Press, 1994), 

Determining Nanoscale Physical Properties of Materials by Microscopy and Spectroscopy, (M. Sarikaya, H. K. Wickramasinghe and M. Isaacson, Eds., Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1994),

Surface Analysis of Paper  (T. Connors, S. Banerjee, Eds., CRC Press, 1995),

Near-Field Optics (M. A. Paesler and P. J. Moyer, Wiley   Interscience, 1996),   

Optical Methods in Surface Metrology  (D. J. Whitehouse, S.P.I.E.’s Milestone Series of Selected Reprints, 1996: three papers selected), 

Near Field Optics and Nanoscopy  (J. P. Fillard, Scientific World Co., 1998), 

Evanescent Waves from Newtonian Optics to Atomic Optics  (F. deFornel, Springer,  2000),

Comprehensive Polymer Science, (second supplement, M. Srinivasarao, “Recent Advances in Microscopy,” Pergamon Press, in press),

Photonics for Fiber and Integrated Optics (K. Iizuka, Wiley, July, 2001).

Near Field Optics  (S. Jutamulia, S.P.I.E.’s Milestone Series of Selected Reprints, 2001 (in press)