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Super-oscillatory lens apparatus and methods

Super-oscillatory lens apparatus and methods
Super-oscillatory lens apparatus and methods
An imaging apparatus is disclosed which uses a super-oscillatory lens to obtain sub-diffraction limit resolution. The super-oscillatory lens is arranged to receive a light beam from a light source, the lens having a pre-defined pattern to spatially modulate the light beam in amplitude and/or phase so that it focuses the light beam to a focus at a first focal point having a full width half maximum of less than half the wavelength. Collection optical elements are arranged to focus the first focal point to a second focal point conjugate to the first focal point. An object for imaging is scanned over the first focal point and a detector is arranged to collect light from a collection region centered on the second focal point.
US20130235180 A1
Rogers, Edward
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Chad, John
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Rogers, Edward, Zheludev, Nikolai and Chad, John (Inventors) (2013) Super-oscillatory lens apparatus and methods. US20130235180 A1.

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Abstract

An imaging apparatus is disclosed which uses a super-oscillatory lens to obtain sub-diffraction limit resolution. The super-oscillatory lens is arranged to receive a light beam from a light source, the lens having a pre-defined pattern to spatially modulate the light beam in amplitude and/or phase so that it focuses the light beam to a focus at a first focal point having a full width half maximum of less than half the wavelength. Collection optical elements are arranged to focus the first focal point to a second focal point conjugate to the first focal point. An object for imaging is scanned over the first focal point and a detector is arranged to collect light from a collection region centered on the second focal point.

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Submitted date: 8 March 2012
Published date: 12 September 2013
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Centre for Biological Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 393145
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/393145
PURE UUID: d02b5502-1f55-4122-9605-3516880dfa36
ORCID for Nikolai Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636
ORCID for John Chad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-4281

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Date deposited: 13 May 2016 13:59
Last modified: 12 Dec 2021 02:46

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Inventor: Edward Rogers
Inventor: Nikolai Zheludev ORCID iD
Inventor: John Chad ORCID iD

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