Optical super-oscillations: sub-wavelength light focusing and super-resolution imaging
Optical super-oscillations: sub-wavelength light focusing and super-resolution imaging
Optical super-oscillations, first predicted in 1952 and observed in 2007, offer a promising route to optical super-resolution imaging and show potential for manufacturing with light and data-storage applications such as direct optical recording and heat assisted magnetic recording. We review the history and basic physics behind the phenomenon of super-oscillation and its application in optics. We overview recent results in creating optical super-oscillations using binary masks, spatial light modulators and planar metamaterial masks. We also investigate the limits and competitiveness of super-oscillatory imaging.
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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10 September 2013
Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Rogers, Edward T.F. and Zheludev, Nikolay I.
(2013)
Optical super-oscillations: sub-wavelength light focusing and super-resolution imaging.
Journal of Optics, 15 (9), , [94008].
(doi:10.1088/2040-8978/15/9/094008).
Abstract
Optical super-oscillations, first predicted in 1952 and observed in 2007, offer a promising route to optical super-resolution imaging and show potential for manufacturing with light and data-storage applications such as direct optical recording and heat assisted magnetic recording. We review the history and basic physics behind the phenomenon of super-oscillation and its application in optics. We overview recent results in creating optical super-oscillations using binary masks, spatial light modulators and planar metamaterial masks. We also investigate the limits and competitiveness of super-oscillatory imaging.
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Published date: 10 September 2013
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357345
ISSN: 2040-8986
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Edward T.F. Rogers
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Nikolay I. Zheludev
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