TY - CPAPER KW - Thin films KW - Crystal orientation KW - Optical microscopy KW - Ferroelectric materials KW - Ferroelectric films KW - Light emission KW - Imaging techniques KW - Light polarization KW - Laser pulses KW - Second harmonic generation KW - Optical fibers KW - Perturbation techniques KW - Fluorescence imaging KW - Near-field second harmonic microscopy KW - Second harmonic imaging AU - I.I Smolyaninov AU - H.Y Liang AU - C.H Lee AU - C.C Davis AU - S Aggarwal AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AB - A near-field optical technique for second harmonic imaging using bare tapered optical fiber tips illuminated with femtosecond laser pulses is presented. This configuration automatically solves one of the main problems in apertureless near-field microscopy: rejection of the background signal from the entire illuminated sample area. BT - Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series LA - eng N1 - cited By 0 N2 - A near-field optical technique for second harmonic imaging using bare tapered optical fiber tips illuminated with femtosecond laser pulses is presented. This configuration automatically solves one of the main problems in apertureless near-field microscopy: rejection of the background signal from the entire illuminated sample area. PB - IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States PY - 2000 EP - 63 T2 - Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series T3 - Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series TI - Near-field second-harmonic microscopy of thin ferroelectric films ER -