Polarization characteristics of superoscillatory beams Conference Paper

abstract

• Recent theoretical and experimental studies have introduced the counterintuitive concept of superoscillations in the context of optics, with direct implications in superresolution [1], subwavelength focusing and imaging [2, 3] without evanescent waves. One can create superoscillatory diffractionless beams by superimposing already known stationary solutions of Helmholtz equation [4], and therefore transfer subwavelength information into the far field. It is noteworthy to mention that this is not interference but a superposition effect, where the intensity of the subwavelength regions is invariant with respect to the propagation distance. The scope of this paper is to understand how one can control and change the polarization of the subwavelength regions with respect to the surrounding high intensity lobes. 2013 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2013 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO EUROPE/IQEC

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• 2013 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE AND INTERNATIONAL QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC)

author list (cited authors)

• Makris, K. G., Papazoglou, D. G., Tzortzakis, S., & Psaltis, D.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Makris, KG||Papazoglou, DG||Tzortzakis, S||Psaltis, D

publication date

• May 2013

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2013.6801839

start page

• 1

end page

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2013.6801839