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A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yijie Shen , Nikitas Papasimakis , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Superoscillations, i.e., the phenomenon that a bandlimited function can temporary oscillate faster than its highest Fourier component, are being much discussed for their potential for `superresolution' beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Achim Kempf , Angus Prain

The concept of superbandwidth refers to the fact that a band-limited signal can exhibit, locally, an increase of its bandwidth, i.e., an effective bandwidth greater than that predicted by its Fourier transform. In this work, we study the…

In ordinary circumstances the highest frequency present in a wave is the highest frequency in its Fourier decomposition. It is however possible for there to be a spatial or temporal region of the wave which locally oscillates at a still…

Superoscillations are band-limited functions that can oscillate faster than their fastest Fourier component. These functions (or sequences) appear in weak values in quantum mechanics and in many fields of science and technology such as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Y. Aharonov , F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , T. Shushi , D. C. Struppa , J. Tollaksen

Superoscillations are a phenomenon where a band-limited wave may locally oscillate faster than its highest Fourier component. They are a product of destructive interference between the wave's constituent harmonics. In this article, we…

It has been found that functions can oscillate locally much faster than their Fourier transform would suggest is possible - a phenomenon called superoscillation. Here, we consider the case of superoscillating wave functions in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Achim Kempf , Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira

While sensing in high temporal resolution is necessary for wide range of application, it is still limited nowadays due to cameras sampling rate. In this work we try to increase the temporal resolution beyond the Nyquist frequency, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Khen Cohen , Dan Raviv , David Mendlovic

We show that it is possible to construct spectrally lower bound limited functions which can oscillate locally at an arbitrarily low frequency. Such sub-oscillatory functions are complementary to super-oscillatory functions which are…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-31 Yaniv Eliezer , Alon Bahabad

Surprisingly, differentiable functions are able to oscillate arbitrarily faster than their highest Fourier component would suggest. The phenomenon is called superoscillation. Recently, a practical method for calculating superoscillatory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Calder , A. Kempf

A function f is said to possess superoscillations if, in a finite region, f oscillates faster than the shortest wavelength that occurs in the Fourier transform of f. I will discuss four aspects of superoscillations: 1. Superoscillations can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Achim Kempf

We present here a theoretical analysis of the interaction between an ideal two-level quantum system and a super-oscillatory pulse, like the one proposed and successfully synthesized in https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/abfedf and…

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

The power spectrum of an optical field can be acquired without a spectrally resolving detector by means of Fourier-transform spectrometry, based on measuring the temporal autocorrelation of the optical field. Analogously, we here perform…

We theoretically revisit the problem of the propagation of coherent light pulses through a linear medium when the carrier frequency of the pulses coincides with the minimum of a narrow dip in the medium transmission. Considering realistic…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-11 Bruno Macke , Bernard Ségard

Supergrowth refers to the local amplitude growth rate of a signal being faster than its fastest Fourier mode. In contrast, superoscillation pertains to the variation of the phase. Compared to the latter, supergrowth can have exponentially…

Terahertz microscopy has attracted attention owing to distinctive characteristics of the THz frequency region, particularly non-ionizing photon energy, spectral fingerprint, and transparency to most nonpolar materials. Nevertheless, the…

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) has been widely used in a variety of fields in research, industry, and medicine due to its high signal-to-noise ratio, simultaneous acquisition of signals in a broad spectrum, and versatility for…

Super-oscillation is a counter-intuitive phenomenon describing localized fast variations of functions and fields that happen at frequencies higher than the highest Fourier component of their spectra. The physical implications of the effect…

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