INTRODUCTION History Fiber Probes and Sensing Systems Theory Devices Fabrications Applications to Systems and Evolution to Related Sciences Toward the Future NANOFABRICATION PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE Adiabatic Nanofabrication Nonadiabatic Nanofabrication NANOFABRICATIONS BY SELF-ORGANIZATION AND OTHER RELATED TECHNOLOGIES Introduction Near-Field Optical Chemical Vapor Deposition Self-Assembling Method Via Optical Near-Field Interactions Near-Field Imprint Lithography Nonadiabatic Optical Near-Field Etching FABRICATION OF QUANTUM DOTS FOR NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES Introduction Fabrication of Self-Assembled QDs Fabrication Techniques of Site-Controlled Nanostructures Silicon-Related Quantum Structure Fabrication Technology ZnO NANOROD HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR NANOPHOTONIC DEVICE APPLICATIONS Introduction ZnO Axial Nanorod Quantum Structures ZnO Radial Nanorod Heterostructures LITHOGRAPHY BY NANOPHOTONICS Introduction Principle of the Optical Near-Field Lithography Optical Near-Field Lithography System Fabricated Patterns by Optical Near-Field Lithography Improvement of Resolution and Fabricated Ultrafine Patterns NANOPATTERNED MEDIA FOR HIGH-DENSITY STORAGE Introduction Nanopatterned Media Block-Copolymer Lithography for Nanopatterned Media Control of Orientation of Self-Assembled Periodic Patterns of Block-Copolymers NANOPHOTONICS RECORDING DEVICE FOR HIGH-DENSITY STORAGE Introduction Thermally Assisted Magnetic Recording Simulation The 'Nanobeak', a Near-Field Optical Probe Bit-Patterned Medium with Magnetic Nanodots Hybrid Recording Experiment Near-Field Optical Efficiency in Hybrid Recording X-RAY DEVICES AND THE POSSIBILITY OF APPLYING NANOPHOTONICS Introduction Design of the Multilayer Laminar-Type Grating Specification of the Multilayer Laminar-Type Grating Fabrication of Multilayer Laminar-Type Gratings Simulation of Diffraction Efficiency Measurement of Diffraction Efficiency Roughness Evaluation Using Debye-Waller Factors NANOSTRUCTURING OF THIN-FILM SURFACES IN FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION Introduction Experimental Properties of Nanostructuring Bonding-Structure Change Dynamic Processes Local Fields Origin of Periodicity QUANTUM DOTS NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES Conceptual Formation and Modeling of the Device From Concept to Realization - Fabrication of the Device How Well the Devices Work - A First Probe To Probe Further - Summary and Outlook HIERARCHY IN OPTICAL NEAR-FIELDS AND ITS APPLICATION TO NANOFABRICATION Introduction Angular Spectrum Representation of Optical Near-Fields Generation of Smaller-Scale Structures via Optical Near-Fields: A Theoretical Basis Experiment f.