Diffraction of evanescent waves and nanomechanical displacement detection

• Published in: Optics letters Vol. 32; no. 13; p. 1881
• Main Authors: Karabacak, Devrez M, Ekinci, Kamil L, Gan, Choon How, Gbur, Gregory J, Unlü, M Selim, Ippolito, Stephen B, Goldberg, Bennett B, Carney, P Scott
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2007

Sensitive displacement detection has emerged as a significant technological challenge in mechanical resonators with nanometer-scale dimensions. A novel nanomechanical displacement detection scheme based upon the scattering of focused evanescent fields is proposed. The sensitivity of the proposed app...