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Chapter 1. The azobenzene molecu<strong>les</strong>: photochromic materials and photodeformationeffects 15(a)(b)pastel-00527388, version 1 - 19 Oct 2010Figure 1.6: Far-field (a) and near-field (b) photoinduced deformation on a sol-gelDR1 film [7].1.3.1.3 Far-field and near-field experimentsThe observation of the photoinduced deformation obtained by illumination in the far andin the near field reveals a contradictory behavior (Figure 1.6). Irradiating the sampleusing a metal-coated tip in the far field (tip-to-sample distance > λ/2π) a groove isobserved in correspondence of the enlightened zone, while two lobes appear on the si<strong>des</strong>,whose orientation is parallel to the light field polarization (a).On the other hand,when the experiment is performed illuminating in the near field, a relief is observed inthe illuminated zone, underneath the tip (b), with a diameter corresponding to the tipaperture.The behavior observed in the far-field experiment has the same characteristic as thematter transport observed under p-polarized interference, where matter migrates fromthe bright fringes towards the dark fringes along the light electric field direction. Onthe other hand, the phenomenon observed in the near-field experiments [7, 29, 45, 46]is similar to the results obtained using the superposition of an s-polarized intensitygradient and a p-polarized assisting beam [40], where matter migration towards theirradiated zones is obtained.

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