%0 Conference Paper
%K Thin films
%K Crystal orientation
%K Optical microscopy
%K Ferroelectric materials
%K Ferroelectric films
%K Light emission
%K Imaging techniques
%K Light polarization
%K Laser pulses
%K Second harmonic generation
%K Optical fibers
%K Perturbation techniques
%K Fluorescence imaging
%K Near-field second harmonic microscopy
%K Second harmonic imaging
%A I.I Smolyaninov
%A H.Y Liang
%A C.H Lee
%A C.C Davis
%A S Aggarwal
%A Ramamoorthy Ramesh
%B Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series
%D 2000
%G eng
%I IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States
%P 63
%T Near-field second-harmonic microscopy of thin ferroelectric films
%X 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.