| 1 Deadlocks in Conventional Optical Science and Technology |
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1.2 Major Photonics Technologies and Their Limits |
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1.2.1 Optical Disk Memory System |
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1.2.2 Optical Fiber Communication |
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1.2.3 Optical Microfabrication |
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1.3 Origin of Limits: Diffraction of Light |
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| 2 Breaking Through the Diffraction Limit by Optical Near Field |
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2.1 Generation of Optical Near Field |
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2.2 Detection of Optical Near Field |
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| 3 Past and Present of Near-Field Optics |
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25 | (1) |
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3.3 Development of Nanophotonics Using Optical Near Fields |
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3.3.4 Optical Disk Memory |
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3.3.5 Extending Applications: Toward Atom Photonics |
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3.4 New Areas of Optical Science Exploiting Optical Near Fields |
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| 4 Dipole-Dipole Interaction Model of Optical Near Field |
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4.1 Near-Field Condition for Detecting Scattered Light |
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4.2.1 Strength of Dipole Interaction |
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4.2.2 Signal Intensity and Resolution |
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4.2.3 Contrast to Background Light |
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1.2.4 Dependence on Incident Light Polarization |
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4.3 Characteristics of Fiber Probes |
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4.3.1 Visibility and its Dependence on Cone Angle |
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4.3.2 Effect of Coating an Opaque Film |
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| 5 Electrodynamics of Oscillating Electric Dipoles |
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5.1 Oscillating Electric Dipoles in Free Space or in a Cavity |
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5.1.1 Oscillating Electric Dipole in Free Space |
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5.1.2 Oscillating Electric Dipole in a Cavity |
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5.2 Oscillating Electric Dipoles in Front of a Planar Mirror |
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5.3 Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics of Oscillating Electric Dipoles |
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| 6 Self-Consistent Method Using a Propagator |
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6.1.1 Propagator in Free Space |
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6.1.2 Propagator in Close Proximity to a Planar Substrate |
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6.2 Application to Collection-Mode Near-Field Optical Microscopy |
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6.2.2 Example Applications |
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| 7 Picture of Optical Near Field Based on Electric Charges Induced on the Surface and Polarized Currents |
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7.1 Description under Near-Field Condition |
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7.1.1 Derivation of Electric Field Based on Static Electromagnetism |
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7.1.2 Signal Intensity Detected by a Fiber Probe |
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7.2 Systematic Description of Optical Near and Far Fields |
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7.2.1 Dual Vector Potential |
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| 8 Picture of Optical Near Field as a Virtual Cloud Around a Nanometric System Surrounded by a Macroscopic System |
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8.2 Effective Interaction Between Sample and Probe |
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8.3 Optical Near Field and its Characteristics |
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| 9 Application to Nanophotonics and Atom Photonics |
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9.1 Energy Transfer Between Molecules and Application to Optical Near-Field Measurement |
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9.1.1 Radiative Energy Transfer 12I |
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9.1.2 Non-Radiative Energy Transfer |
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9.2.1 Formulation by Conventional Theory |
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9.2.2 Deflecting and Trapping an Atom Using the Optical Near Field Generated at a Fiber Probe Tip |
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9.3 Nanophotonic Switching |
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9.3.1 Interaction and Energy Transfer Between Quantum Dots via Optical Near Field |
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9.3.2 Principle and Operation of a Nanophotonic Switch |
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9.3.3 Experiments to Confirm Nanophotonic Switching |
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| A Basic Formulae of Electromagnetism |
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A.1 Maxwell's Equations and Related Formulae |
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A.1.1 Static Electric and Magnetic Fields |
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A.1.2 Dynamic Electric and Magnetic Fields |
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A.1.3 Electromagnetic Fields Generated by an Electric Dipole |
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A.1.4 Power Radiated from an Electric Dipole |
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| B Refractive Index of a Metal |
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| C Exciton-Polariton |
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| D Derivation of Equations in Chapter 8 |
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D.4 Projection Operator Method and Derivation of (8.5) |
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D.4.1 Definition of a Projection Operator |
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D.4.2 Derivation of an Effective Operator |
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D.5 Approximation of J in (8.5) by J(¹) |
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178 | (1) |
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| Solutions to Problems |
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| References |
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| Index |
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