title: Surface plasmon-assisted widefield non-linear imaging of gold structures.
abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate how the confinement and enhancement of optical fields by surface plasmon resonance can allow non-linear microscopy to be performed in a simple, cost-effective widefield configuration, rather than the more usual laser-scanning arrangement. We present second harmonic and two-photon luminescence widefield images of dielectric and gold samples obtained with both prism-based and high numerical aperture objective ('prismless') microscope arrangements.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Sciences (IBIOS), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. eexcq@nottingham.ac.uk
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Velinov
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pitter
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Somekh