Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit

NI Zheludev, G Yuan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical superoscillations are rapid, subwavelength spatial variations of the intensity and
phase of light, occurring in complex electromagnetic fields formed by the interference of …

Subwavelength optical engineering with metasurface waves

X Luo - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As artificial 2D materials made of subwavelength inclusions, metasurfaces bear exotic
optical and electromagnetic properties not obtainable in naturally occurring materials. Based …

Achromatic metalens over 60 nm bandwidth in the visible and metalens with reverse chromatic dispersion

M Khorasaninejad, Z Shi, AY Zhu, WT Chen… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we experimentally report an achromatic metalens (AML) operating over a
continuous bandwidth in the visible. This is accomplished via dispersion engineering of …

Roadmap on superoscillations

M Berry, N Zheludev, Y Aharonov, F Colombo… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Superoscillations are band-limited functions with the counterintuitive property that they can
vary arbitrarily faster than their fastest Fourier component, over arbitrarily long intervals …

Optical phenomena in mesoscale dielectric particles

OV Minin, IV Minin - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the last decade, new unusual physical phenomena have been discovered in
studying the optics of dielectric mesoscale particles of an arbitrary three-dimensional shape …

Roadmap on Label‐Free Super‐Resolution Imaging

VN Astratov, YB Sahel, YC Eldar… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Label‐free super‐resolution (LFSR) imaging relies on light‐scattering processes in
nanoscale objects without a need for fluorescent (FL) staining required in super‐resolved FL …

Ultrabroadband superoscillatory lens composed by plasmonic metasurfaces for subdiffraction light focusing

D Tang, C Wang, Z Zhao, Y Wang, M Pu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional optics is diffraction limited due to the cutoff of spatial frequency components,
and evanescent waves allow subdiffraction optics at the cost of complex near‐field …

[PDF][PDF] Improved spatiotemporal resolution of anti-scattering super-resolution label-free microscopy via synthetic wave 3D metalens imaging

Y Xiao, L Chen, M Pu, M Xu, Q Zhang, Y Guo… - Opto-Electronic …, 2023 - researching.cn
Super-resolution (SR) microscopy has dramatically enhanced our understanding of
biological processes. However, scattering media in thick specimens severely limits the …

Superoscillation: from physics to optical applications

G Chen, ZQ Wen, CW Qiu - Light: Science & Applications, 2019 - nature.com
The resolution of conventional optical elements and systems has long been perceived to
satisfy the classic Rayleigh criterion. Paramount efforts have been made to develop different …

[PDF][PDF] A supercritical lens optical label‐free microscopy: sub‐diffraction resolution and ultra‐long working distance

F Qin, K Huang, J Wu, J Teng, CW Qiu… - Advanced Materials, 2017 - ece.nus.edu.sg
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201602721 big challenge.[18] The far-field sub-wavelength focusing
has also been demonstrated by other nano-structured lenses, such as photon nanosieve …