摘要:
The purpose of the invention is to fabricate a near field optical head capable of recording and reading high density information at high speed with excellent mass production. In the invention, stoppers having almost the same height as that of a tip of conical or pyramidal shape are disposed around the tip, a part of a pressing body covering the tip and the stoppers is displaced by an external force, a part of the pressing body having displaced is allowed to come into contact with an opaque film near the point of the tip and thereby an aperture is formed. According to a fabricating method of the invention, multiple apertures can be formed in a block. Thus, the near field optical head is excellent in mass production and the formed aperture has a structure of high optical efficiency and high resolution. Therefore, the near field optical head capable of performing recording/reading in high density and at high speed can be fabricated in excellent mass production.
摘要:
The present invention has an object to obtain an optical waveguide probe which is formed in a hook form to illuminate and detect light by a manufacture using a silicon process. This optical waveguide probe is formed in a hook form and structured by an optical waveguide 1 sharpened at a probe needle portion 5 and formed of dielectric and a substrate 2 supporting this optical waveguide 1. This optical waveguide 1 is formed overlying the substrate 2. The optical waveguide 1 is structured by a core 8 to transmit light and a cladding 9 smaller in refractive index than the core 8.
摘要:
In a combined scanning near field optical microscope (Nsom) and atomic force microscope (AFM), an optical fibre probe (1) which has a minute opening on the top of a sharpened tip is brought close to a sample (2), and the probe is moved by a piezo actuator (15) along x- and y-axis directions so that a minute spot beam emanating from the minute opening can scan over the sample. For circular polarisation modulation to be incorporated in the process, a beam is given an optical delay, before it is incident on the optical fibre probe (1), changing at a frequency of p (Hz) by means of a piezo-optical modulator (10). A minute spot beam emanating from the minute opening passes through the sample (2) to be received after passage through the sample (2) to be received after passage through an analyser (5) by a light receiving element (7). The output from the light receiving element (7) is fed to a lock-in amplifier, p- and 2p-components are separated through lock-in rectification, and they are rendered into images by a controller (16). It is used for measuring the distribution of magneto-optical effects.
摘要:
In a combined scanning near field optical microscope (Nsom) and atomic force microscope (AFM), an optical fibre probe (1) which has a minute opening on the top of a sharpened tip is brought close to a sample (2), and the probe is moved by a piezo actuator (15) along x- and y-axis directions so that a minute spot beam emanating from the minute opening can scan over the sample. For circular polarisation modulation to be incorporated in the process, a beam is given an optical delay, before it is incident on the optical fibre probe (1), changing at a frequency of p (Hz) by means of a piezo-optical modulator (10). A minute spot beam emanating from the minute opening passes through the sample (2) to be received after passage through the sample (2) to be received after passage through an analyser (5) by a light receiving element (7). The output from the light receiving element (7) is fed to a lock-in amplifier, p- and 2p-components are separated through lock-in rectification, and they are rendered into images by a controller (16). It is used for measuring the distribution of magneto-optical effects.
摘要:
A low-loss optical micro cantilever (10) comprises a support (1), an optical waveguide (2), an opaque film (3), a reflective film (4), a chip (5) with a pointed end, a minute opening (6) in the pointed of the chip (5), and a reflective mirror (7) for directing the light (H) from an optical input/output end (8) of the optical waveguide (2) toward the minute opening (6).
摘要:
A near-field optical memory head for recording and/or reproducing information of a recording medium by utilizing near-field light wherein near-field light forming means having a very small aperture portion (54) for forming near-field light on the recording medium and near-field light detecting means (56) for detecting the formed near-field light are provided on a same substrate (52) and the substrate is constituted to project from a substrate at an outer peripheral portion.
摘要:
There is provided an optical cantilever which is an optical cantilever for SNOM for irradiating and / or detecting light to or from a very small aperture, and is excellent in mass production performance and uniformity and capable of observing even a soft sample at high speed without damaging the sample. There is provided an optical cantilever characterized in including a base portion 1, a cantilever portion 2 extended from the base portion 1, a light propagating portion 5 of a dielectric member penetrating the cantilever portion 2, formed to project above the cantilever on a side opposed to the base portion and having a sharpened front end and a light propagating tip 3, a light shielding film 6 covering a surrounding of the sharpened dielectric member and a very small aperture 4 formed at the sharpened front end of the dielectric member.
摘要:
The object of the present invention is to provide an information recording/reproduction device for implementing high-density information recording and reading using mutual interaction of a recording medium with near field light, and particularly to a near field optical head with a high optical efficiency and a manufacturing method thereof. This is achieved by enabling an energy propagation mechanism via a plasmon by forming a layer dispersed with metal particulate at a microscopic opening generating near field light, and therefore increase optical efficiency.