Grafting fluorescent nanodiamonds onto optical tips

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2010-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/1002.1086v2

J. Nanophoton. 4, 043506 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Minor stylistic changes since first submission

Scientific paper

10.1117/1.3374237

We recently (Optics Express 17, 19969 (2009)) introduced an all-optical method for grafting onto the apex of an optical tip a single 20 nm nanodiamond with single color-center occupancy and used the resulting single-photon tip in scanning near-field imaging at room temperature, thereby achieving a genuine scanning single-photon microscopy working in ambient conditions. A variant of this method is described that allows for attaching several nanodiamonds onto the tip apex, releasing them all at once and finally recapturing them one by one by the scanning tip. This underlines the flexibility and powerfulness of our method and its variant that could be used in applications where a fixed number of selected optically active nano-objects requires positioning, or repositioning, at well defined locations with nanometer accuracy.

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