Pipette SNOM/AFM probe applicable to any wavelength and combination with confocal microscope

Hiroshi Muramatsu; Norio Chiba; Katsunori Homma; Noritaka Yamamoto; Akira Egawa

doi:10.1117/12.350634

17 June 1999 Pipette SNOM/AFM probe applicable to any wavelength and combination with confocal microscope

Hiroshi Muramatsu, Norio Chiba, Katsunori Homma, Noritaka Yamamoto, Akira Egawa

Proceedings Volume 3607, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.350634
Event: BiOS '99 International Biomedical Optics Symposium, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A novel pipette SNOM/AFM probe has been developed for its simple fabrication and applicability to wide wavelength range. The pipette probe is simply fabricated by a successive process of pulling, bending with a CO₂ laser, making a hole and coating with a metal layer. The hole is made on the tube at the back side of the tip for applying a light. The pipette probe is mounted on the SNOM/AFM system which includes a confocal microscope. The light is introduced to the hole directly by focusing from a confocal microscope or through an optical fiber. The probe provided clear topographic and optical images for a sample of a patterned chromium layer on a glass substrate and fluorescence beads. A confocal images was also obtained in a wide area of the same samples.

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Hiroshi Muramatsu, Norio Chiba, Katsunori Homma, Noritaka Yamamoto, and Akira Egawa "Pipette SNOM/AFM probe applicable to any wavelength and combination with confocal microscope", Proc. SPIE 3607, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications, (17 June 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.350634

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