Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

X Zhang, Z Liu - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
The imaging resolution of conventional lenses is limited by diffraction. Artificially engineered
metamaterials now offer the possibility of building a superlens that overcomes this limit. We …

Metalens in improving imaging quality: advancements, challenges, and prospects for future display

Y Peng, J Zhang, X Zhou, C Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metalens, a metasurface with a focusing phase, has been the focus of research due to its
immense potential for use in imaging and display technology. Traditional lens and optical …

Super-resolution without evanescent waves

FM Huang, NI Zheludev - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
The past decade has seen numerous efforts to achieve imaging resolution beyond that of
the Abbe− Rayleigh diffraction limit. The main direction of research aiming to break this limit …

Resonant metalenses for breaking the diffraction barrier

F Lemoult, G Lerosey, J de Rosny, M Fink - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We introduce the resonant metalens, a cluster of coupled subwavelength resonators.
Dispersion allows the conversion of subwavelength wave fields into temporal signatures …

Wide field super-resolution surface imaging through plasmonic structured illumination microscopy

F Wei, D Lu, H Shen, W Wan, JL Ponsetto, E Huang… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate a wide field surface plasmon (SP) assisted super-resolution
imaging technique, plasmonic structured illumination microscopy (PSIM), by combining …

Development of optical hyperlens for imaging below the diffraction limit

H Lee, Z Liu, Y **ong, C Sun, X Zhang - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We report here the design, fabrication and characterization of optical hyperlens that can
image sub-diffraction-limited objects in the far field. The hyperlens is based on an artificial …

Plasmonic structured illumination microscopy

F Wei, JL Ponsetto, Z Liu - Plasmonics and Super-Resolution …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on one of the emerging super-resolution techniques, plasmonic
structured illumination microscopy (PSIM), which combines tunable surface plasmon …

Metamaterials and imaging

M Kim, J Rho - Nano Convergence, 2015 - Springer
Resolution of the conventional lens is limited to half the wavelength of the light source by
diffraction. In the conventional optical system, evanescent waves, which carry sub-diffraction …

Nanostructures for surface plasmons

J Zhang, L Zhang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Surface plasmons (SPs) are electromagnetic excitations existing at the interface between a
metal and a dielectric material. Control and manipulation of light based on SPs at the …

Two-dimensional imaging by far-field superlens at visible wavelengths

Y **ong, Z Liu, C Sun, X Zhang - Nano letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
We report that two-dimensional (2D) sub-diffraction-limited images can be theoretically
reconstructed by a new metamaterial far-field superlens. The metamaterial far-field …