Title

Superresolution via enhanced evanescent tunneling

Authors

Authors

A. Salandrino;D. N. Christodoulides

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

OPTICAL HYPERLENS; LIMIT; Optics

Abstract

We here propose the concept of enhanced evanescent tunneling (EET). Our analysis indicates that by means of a suitable control field, the transmission of evanescent waves across a forbidden gap can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude-well beyond the ordinary frustrated total internal reflection case. We show how such a phenomenon can be used to probe both the amplitude and phase of the evanescent portion of the angular spectrum, thereby allowing target superresolution. In principle EET can be manifested in other areas of physics where wave tunneling is involved. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

36

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

487

Last Page

489

WOS Identifier

WOS:000287395500020

ISSN

0146-9592

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