Optical super-resolution through super-oscillations
Optical super-resolution through super-oscillations
We demonstrate that a quasi-periodic array of nanoholes in a metal screen can focus light into subwavelength spots in the far-field without contributions from evanescent fields. The subwavelength spots were observed with a conventional optical microscope and mapped to the far-field. We relate the formation of subwavelength light localizations in the far-field to the phenomenon of super-oscillations. This effect offers a new way to achieve subwavelength imaging, which differs from approaches based on the recovery of evanescent fields.
super-resolution, super-oscillation, quasicrystal, diffraction
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Huang, Fu Min
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Chen, Yifang
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García de Abajo, F.Javier
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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September 2007
Huang, Fu Min
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Chen, Yifang
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García de Abajo, F.Javier
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Huang, Fu Min, Chen, Yifang, García de Abajo, F.Javier and Zheludev, Nikolay I.
(2007)
Optical super-resolution through super-oscillations.
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 9 (5), .
(doi:10.1088/1464-4258/9/9/S01).
Abstract
We demonstrate that a quasi-periodic array of nanoholes in a metal screen can focus light into subwavelength spots in the far-field without contributions from evanescent fields. The subwavelength spots were observed with a conventional optical microscope and mapped to the far-field. We relate the formation of subwavelength light localizations in the far-field to the phenomenon of super-oscillations. This effect offers a new way to achieve subwavelength imaging, which differs from approaches based on the recovery of evanescent fields.
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Published date: September 2007
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(In: selected papers from NANOMETA-2007 (8–11 January 2007, Seefeld, Austria)
Keywords:
super-resolution, super-oscillation, quasicrystal, diffraction
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/50214
ISSN: 1741-3567
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Yifang Chen
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F.Javier García de Abajo
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