Far-field superoscillatory metamaterial superlens
Far-field superoscillatory metamaterial superlens
We demonstrate a radically new type of metamaterial superlens: a planar array of discrete sub-wavelength metamolecules with individual scattering characteristics tailored to vary spatially to create sub-diffraction superoscillatory focus of – in principle – arbitrary shape and size. Metamaterial free-space lenses with previously unattainable effective numerical apertures – as high as 1.52 – and foci as small as 0.33λ in size are demonstrated. Super-resolution imaging with such lenses is experimentally verified breaking the conventional diffraction limit of resolution and confirming resolution equal to the size of the foci. Our approach will enable far-field label-free super-resolution non-algorithmic microscopies at harmless levels of intensity, including imaging inside cells, nanostructures and silicon chips, without impregnating them with fluorescent materials.
Metamaterials, nanoantennas, photonics, plasmonics, refraction, optical nanoscopy, super-resolution techniques
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Yuan, Guanghui
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Rogers, Katrine
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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June 2019
Yuan, Guanghui
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Rogers, Katrine
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Yuan, Guanghui, Rogers, Katrine, Rogers, Edward T.F. and Zheludev, Nikolai
(2019)
Far-field superoscillatory metamaterial superlens.
Physical Review Applied, 11 (6), , [064016].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.064016).
Abstract
We demonstrate a radically new type of metamaterial superlens: a planar array of discrete sub-wavelength metamolecules with individual scattering characteristics tailored to vary spatially to create sub-diffraction superoscillatory focus of – in principle – arbitrary shape and size. Metamaterial free-space lenses with previously unattainable effective numerical apertures – as high as 1.52 – and foci as small as 0.33λ in size are demonstrated. Super-resolution imaging with such lenses is experimentally verified breaking the conventional diffraction limit of resolution and confirming resolution equal to the size of the foci. Our approach will enable far-field label-free super-resolution non-algorithmic microscopies at harmless levels of intensity, including imaging inside cells, nanostructures and silicon chips, without impregnating them with fluorescent materials.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 June 2019
Published date: June 2019
Keywords:
Metamaterials, nanoantennas, photonics, plasmonics, refraction, optical nanoscopy, super-resolution techniques
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Local EPrints ID: 431772
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431772
ISSN: 2331-7019
PURE UUID: 315d35e7-879f-4e28-9279-03f8f9d737bd
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Guanghui Yuan
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Edward T.F. Rogers
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