Nanometer-resolution scanning optical microscope with resonance excitation of the fluorescence of the samples from a single-atom excited center
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 63 (5), 319-323
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567024
Abstract
A scanning optical microscope whose active element (the tip) consists of a crystal containing impurity ions or color centers, which are excited by laser radiation, is proposed. The excitation energy from a single impurity center located at the point of the tip is transferred to the fluorescence centers of the experimental sample by the mechanism of resonant dipole-dipole exchange. It is shown that this approach can give nanometer spatial resolution with high sensitivity, which in many cases is much higher than the sensitivity of the “standard” near-field fluorescence microscopy.Keywords
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