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Existing methods for the localization of light at the nanoscale use either a structure with negative permittivity, by exploiting subwavelength plasmonic resonances, or a dielectric structure with a high refractive index, which reduces the…

An experimental evidence of subwavelength imaging with a "lens", which is a uniaxial negative permittivity wire medium slab, is reported. The slab is formed by gratings of long thin parallel conducting cylinders. Taking into account the…

Solid-state quantum light sources are being intensively investigated for applications in quantum technology. A key challenge is to extract light from host materials with high refractive index, where efficiency is limited by refraction and…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-11 S G Bishop , J K Cannon , H B Yagci , R N Clark , J P Hadden , W Langbein , A J Bennett

We have fabricated highly-luminescent samples with erbium-doped amorphous silicon sub-oxide (a-SiOx<Er>) layers on SiO2/Si substrates. The layers are designed to provide a resonance with large modal overlap with the active material and with…

Optical embedded eigenstates are localized modes of an open structure that are compatible to radiation yet they have infinite lifetime and diverging quality factors. Their realization in nanostructures finite in all dimensions is inherently…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-13 Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

Fourier ptychography (FP) is a promising computational imaging technique that overcomes the physical space-bandwidth product (SBP) limit of a conventional microscope by applying angular diversity illuminations. However, to date, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 An Pan , Yan Zhang , Kai Wen , Maosen Li , Meiling Zhou , Junwei Min , Ming Lei , Baoli Yao

Investigations of the optical response of subwavelength structure arrays milled into thin metal films has revealed surprising phenomena including reports of unexpectedly high transmission of light. Many studies have interpreted the optical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Gay , O. Alloschery , B. Viaris de Lesegno , C. O'Dwyer , J. Weiner , H. J. Lezec

Microscopy with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation holds promise for high-resolution imaging with excellent material contrast, due to the short wavelength and numerous element-specific absorption edges available in this spectral range. At…

It is shown that the transparency of opaque material with negative permittivity exhibits resonant behavior. The resonance occurs as a result of the excitation of the surface waves at slab boundaries. Dramatic field amplification of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Fourkal , I. Velchev , C-M. Ma , A. Smolyakov

We fabricated thin-films made from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with embedded high-index (n~1.9-2.2) microspheres for super-resolution imaging applications. To control the position of microspheres, such films can be translated along the…

Near-field enhancement and sub-wavelength imaging properties of a system comprising a coupled pair of two-dimensional arrays of resonant nanospheres are studied. The concept of using two coupled material sheets possessing surface mode…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pekka Alitalo , Constantin Simovski , Ari Viitanen , Sergei Tretyakov

Silicon photodetectors are highly desirable for their CMOS compatibility, low cost, and fast response speed. However, their application the infrared (IR) is limited by silicon's intrinsic bandgap, which restricts its detection to photons…

Plasmons in graphene nanostructures show great promise for mid-infrared applications ranging from a few to tens of microns. However, mid-infrared plasmonic resonances in graphene nanostructures are usually weak and narrow-banded, limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Bingchen Deng , Qiushi Guo , Cheng Li , Haozhe Wang , Xi Ling , Damon B. Farmer , Shu-jen Han , Jing Kong , Fengnian Xia

We theoretically demonstrate negative refraction and sub-wavelength resolution below the diffraction limit in the UV and extreme UV ranges using semiconductors. The metal-like re-sponse of typical semiconductors such as GaAs or GaP makes it…

There has been a significant effort to design nanophotonic structures that process images at the speed of light. A prototypical example is in edge detection, where photonic-crystal-, metasurface-, and plasmon-based designs have been…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-26 Wenjin Xue , Owen D. Miller

The photon trapping nano-structures help to enhance quantum efficiency and reduce reflection for MSM photodetector that allows fast Si photodetectors at wavelength 800-950nm. The nanostructure consist of micro holes reduces reflection and…

Breaking the diffraction limit is always an appealing topic due to the urge for a better imaging resolution in almost all areas. As an effective solution, the superlens based on the plasmonic effect can resonantly amplify evanescent waves,…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-28 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Chao-Hai Du , Pu-Kun Liu

We extend the ideas of the recently proposed perfect lens [J.B. Pendry, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 85}, 3966 (2000)] to an alternative structure. We show that a slab of a medium with negative refractive index bounded by media of different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , J. B. Pendry , D. Schurig , D. R. Smith , S. Schultz

While conventional optical trapping techniques can trap objects with submicron dimensions, the underlying limits imposed by the diffraction of light generally restrict their use to larger or higher refractive index particles. As the index…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Mark Daly , Viet Giang Truong , Síle Nic Chormaic

The integration of nanoscale electronics with conventional optical devices is restricted by the diffraction limit of light. Metals can confine light at the subwavelength scales needed, but they are lossy, while dielectric materials do not…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-06 Saman Jahani , Zubin Jacob