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Published on: September 8, 2017
Toward the subdiffraction focusing limit of optical superresolution
1Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada. vkalosha@uottawa.ca
Abstract:
A superresolving three-zone plate is applied to a Fresnel diffractive lens. It is shown that for radial incident polarization this combination produces a focal spot approaching superresolution allowed subdiffractive limit of 0.36lambda/NA for focusing. For media responsive to longitudinal field component only, our phase engineering scheme results in a focal spot size of 0.368lambda/NA. When used with a solid immersion lens, the scheme can generate the smallest focal spot available for passive optics.
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