Sub-Wavelength Probing and Modification of Complex Photonic Structures

• Egile nagusia: Vignolini, Silvia (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Firenze Firenze University Press 2010
• Saila: Premio Tesi di Dottorato
• Gaiak: Physics
• Sarrera elektronikoa: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The aim of this thesis consists in the study and modification of complex photonic nano-structures. Nowadays, propagation of light in such materials is a rich and fascinating area of research, both for its fundamental implications and for its practical technological impact. To deeply investigate light propagation inside these structures a high spatial resolution technique is required, especially because intriguing effects often occur on length scales comparable with the diffraction-limit or involve coupling phenomena on this length scale. For this reason in this thesis a Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope represents one the most straightforward tool both to study and locally modify complex photonic nano-structures from perfect periodic to completely random ones.