title: Surface plasmon mediated near-field imaging and optical addressing in nanoscience.
abstract: We present an overview of recent progress in "plasmonics". We focus our study on the observation and excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with optical near-field microscopy. We discuss in particular recent applications of photon scanning tunnelling microscope (PSTM) for imaging of SPP propagating in metal and dielectric wave guides. We show how near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) can be used to optically and actively address remote nano objects such as quantum dots. Additionally we compare results obtained with near-field microcopy to those obtained with other optical far-field methods of analysis such as leakage radiation microscopy (LRM).
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Universitätsplatz 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria. aurelien.drezet@uni-graz.at
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drezet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hohenau
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Krenn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huant