Superresolution via enhanced evanescent tunneling

    Authors

    A. Salandrino;D. N. Christodoulides

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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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