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 …

Mathematical concepts of optical superresolution

J Lindberg - Journal of Optics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit, ie, optical superresolution, has been studied
extensively in various contexts. This paper presents an overview of some mathematical …

Optical super-oscillations: sub-wavelength light focusing and super-resolution imaging

ETF Rogers, NI Zheludev - Journal of Optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Super-oscillatory optical needle

ETF Rogers, S Savo, J Lindberg, T Roy… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Super-oscillatory optical lenses have recently been shown to achieve subwavelength
focusing and have been used for super-resolution imaging. However, the subwavelength …

An optical super-microscope for far-field, real-time imaging beyond the diffraction limit

AMH Wong, GV Eleftheriades - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Optical microscopy suffers from a fundamental resolution limitation arising from the
diffractive nature of light. While current solutions to sub-diffraction optical microscopy involve …

Superresolution far-field imaging of complex objects using reduced superoscillating ripples

XH Dong, AMH Wong, M Kim, GV Eleftheriades - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Superoscillation is a phenomenon where a wave oscillates locally faster than its highest
Fourier component. While previous reports have shown attractive possibilities for a …

Using superoscillations for superresolved imaging and subwavelength focusing

G Gbur - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
It is now well-appreciated that a bandlimited wave can possess oscillations much more
rapidly than those predicted by the bandlimit itself, in a phenomenon known as …

Optimising superoscillatory spots for far-field super-resolution imaging

KS Rogers, KN Bourdakos, GH Yuan, S Mahajan… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical superoscillatory imaging, allowing unlabelled far-field super-resolution, has in recent
years become reality. Instruments have been built and their super-resolution imaging …

Active Huygens' box: Arbitrary electromagnetic wave generation with an electronically controlled metasurface

AMH Wong, GV Eleftheriades - IEEE Transactions on Antennas …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates the generation of arbitrary electromagnetic waveforms inside a
geometrical area enclosed by an active metasurface. We introduce the Huygens' box, where …

Realising superoscillations: A review of mathematical tools and their application

KS Rogers, ETF Rogers - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Superoscillations are making a growing impact on an ever-increasing number of real-world
applications, as early theoretical analysis has evolved into wide experimental realisation …