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SUBMITTER: Ropp C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383001 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ropp Chad C Cummins Zachary Z Nah Sanghee S Fourkas John T JT Shapiro Benjamin B Waks Edo E
Nature communications 20150319
An emitter near a surface induces an image dipole that can modify the observed emission intensity and radiation pattern. These image-dipole effects are generally not taken into account in single-emitter tracking and super-resolved imaging applications. Here we show that the interference between an emitter and its image dipole induces a strong polarization anisotropy and a large spatial displacement of the observed emission pattern. We demonstrate these effects by tracking the emission of a singl ...[more]