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Design of a Near-Field Probe for Optical Recording Using a 3-Dimensional Finite Difference Time Domain Method
Kusato Hirota1,
Tom D. Milster2,
Yan Zhang2 and
J. Kevin Erwin2
1Electronic and Imaging Materials Research Laboratories,
Toray Industries Inc., 1–1–1 Sonoyama, Otsu 520, Japan
2Optical Science Center/Optical Data Storage Center,
University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona 85721, USA
(Received August 26, 1999; accepted for publication September 27, 1999)
Tapered dielectric near-field probes are designed for
optical recording by means of a 3-Dimensional finite difference
time domain (FDTD) method. Probe fabrication is attempted with a
double-exposure holographic technique.
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DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.39.973
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- FDTD calculations in this work are performed with “XFDTD 5.0,” which is available commercially from Remcom, Inc.
