Abstract
We present quantitative measurements of mechanical forces induced by evanescent light on a semiconductor probe tip by the surface-photo voltage effect (SPV)1 The semiconducting tip is used as a sensitive subwavelength-sized light detector. Scanning techniques allow the profiling of laterally inhomogeneous light distributions, such as standing wave patterns.
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